Fire devastates city slum, baby killed

Amid the charred ruins, Abdul Jalil, a teacher of a Madrasa in Dhaka’s Karwan Bazar, sits with a bundle of burnt currency notes.
He has been living with his family that includes three daughters at Madhubagh slum at Mogbazar for the last 20 years.
He has been divested of everything by a fire that broke out at the slum Saturday morning.
Over 100 families living in the slum lost all of their possessions to the hungry flame.
Fire servicemen said the fire broke out at 8:15am. They reached the spot soon after getting information and managed to douse the flame after two hours.
Ramna Police Station’s OC Mashiur Rahman said all the shanties inside the slum were reduced to ashes. A three-year-old, who was sleeping in a room, died in the fire, according to a news agency.