A fire broke out at a multi-storey residential building in the capital's Shantinagar area on Thursday night.
The fire originated from the kitchen of a flat on the fifth floor of the nine-storey building at Pirshaheber Goli around 8:45pm, said Russel Shikder, duty officer at the Fire Service and Civil Defence Central Control Room.
On information, four fire-fighting units rushed in and brought the fire under control around 9:10pm, he said.
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