On November 3, 1971, while the nation was fighting for independence, another battle took place at the Guptakhali canal in Chattogram. A nearby fire station was informed that a fire had broken out on an oil tanker carrying 1,000 tonnes of kerosene and 30 tonnes of gasoline.

Another firefighter, who sustained critical injures at Sitakunda's BM container depot fire, died at a hospital in Dhaka early today.