Fire in city bldg; one dies inhaling fume

A young man died inhaling fume as a fire broke out at a five-storey building at Rokeya Sahrani in the capital’s Mirpur area on Monday morning, reports UNB.
The victim was identified as Mamun Miah, 30. Atiqul Islam, an inspector at Fire Service Control Room, said the blaze broke out at a shop, ‘Parda Bilas’, on the ground floor of the building at East Monipur in Mirpur-10 around 8:19am.
On information, six firefighting units rushed to the spot and doused the flame around 8:50am.
Officer-in-charge of Mirpur Police Station Bhuiyan Mahbub Hasan said the firefighters rescued, Mamun, a private company staff who suffered suffocation during the fire, and took him to Shaheed Suhrawardy Hospital from where he was referred to Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH). But, died while being moved to the DMCH. 
It was not still clear what caused the fire.

Fire in city bldg; one dies inhaling fume

A young man died inhaling fume as a fire broke out at a five-storey building at Rokeya Sahrani in the capitals Mirpur area on Monday morning, reports UNB. The victim was identified as Mamun Miah, 30. Atiqul Islam, an inspector at Fire Service Control Room, said the blaze broke out at a shop, Parda Bilas, on the ground floor of the building at East Monipur in Mirpur-10 around 8:19am. On information, six firefighting units rushed to the spot and doused the flame around 8:50am. Officer-in-charge of Mirpur Police Station Bhuiyan Mahbub Hasan said the firefighters rescued, Mamun, a private company staff who suffered suffocation during the fire, and took him to Shaheed Suhrawardy Hospital from where he was referred to Dhaka Medical College Hospital (DMCH). But, died while being moved to the DMCH. It was not still clear what caused the fire.