The New Nation - Internet Edition

Staff Reporter

A fire broke out inside the Bangladesh Secretariat creating panic and another blaze damaged the medicine market of the city's Aziz Co-operative Market at Shahbagh yesterday afternoon.

No casualty was reported but the incidents created panic among the officials of the Bangladesh Secretariat and residents of Shahbagh.

Fire Brigade sources said the fire at the Secretariat originated from a burning cigarette stub in the toilet of Building-6 at about 1:30pm.

On information, fire fighters from the headquarters rushed to the spot and doused the flame at about 1:50pm.

Eyewitnesses said the fire at the medicine market originated from a gas pipeline leakage at about 1:30pm. The fire immediately spread to the shops on the ground floor creating dense smoke.

Firefighters rushed to the spot and extinguished the fire. But businessmen and residents of the locality became panicked as gas continued to leak even after the fire was doused.