2 warehouse owners remanded

A Dhaka court yesterday  placed two owners of an unauthorised chemical warehouse on a three-day  remand each in a case filed over the devastating fire that killed six  people in old Dhaka's Armanitola on April 23.

The accused are: Mostafizur Rahman and Mohammad Mostafa. Mostafizur was arrested from Nandigram of Bogura, while Mostafa from the capital's Uttara.

Dhaka  Metropolitan Magistrate Abu Sufiyan Md Noman passed the order after Inspector Mir  Rezaul Islam, the  case's investigation officer, produced them before his court with a  10-day remand prayer.

Both are the FIR-named accused in a case filed by Bangshal Police Station against eight named and 15 to 20 unnamed people.

The  duo admitted storing chemicals and highly flammable goods at their  warehouse in Haji Musa Mansion, the six-storey building which caught  fire.