A fire has broken out on a launch on the Buriganga river in Dhaka’s Sadarghat.
The blaze started on board the ‘MV Advance-9’, which was near the launch terminal mosque, around 10:45 am on Sunday, the fire service said.
Three firefighting units were dispatched to the scene immediately and another two were sent later on, said Ershad Hossain, an official at the fire service Control Room, reports bdnews24.com.
The launch arrived at the Sadarghat carrying passengers around 4:00am, said a BIWTA official at the Sadarghat named ‘Alamgir’.
The passengers disembarked and repairs were underway on the vessel’s air conditioning system when the fire started, he said.
He identified the launch owner as Nizam Uddin and said the launch had sustained some significant damage.
The fire service was not immediately able to identify the cause of the fire or the extent of the damage.
