No casualty in Gulshan building fire

No casualties were reported in the fire that broke out in a twenty-storey commercial building in the capital's Gulshan yesterday.

Nine firefighting units doused the blaze an hour after it broke out on the ninth and fifteenth floors of the Gulshan Silver Tower around 2:00pm.

The fire that originated from an electric short circuit outside the building, reached the ninth floor through internet and TV cable, said Mamun Mahmud, assistant director of Fire Service and Civil Defence said.

Firefighters working to douse the blaze at a high-rise building in Gulshan area of Dhaka on October 24, 2018. Photo: Palash Kahn