250 shanties gutted in Ctg

Fire sources said the fire broke out at a slum of a colony at Sundaripara of city's Halishahar G-block area at around 2:00am.

The fire spread fast engulfing adjoining houses and also four other colonies.

Around 250 tin-shed slum houses of the five colonies were reduced to ashes in the fire.

Eight fire fighting units from city's different fire stations rushed to the spot and extinguished the fire at 5:25am.

The fire originated from electric short circuit and damages in the fire were estimated at Tk 5 lakh, fire service sources said.

However, the witnesses and local people claimed that the damages in the fire would exceed Tk 7 lakh and around one thousand people became homeless.