Fire at Uttara kitchen market under control

A fire that broke out at a kitchen market at Uttara Sector-11 in Dhaka on Wednesday has been brought under control.

Firefighters were alerted to the incident around 5:40pm, said Rakibul Hasan, duty officer at the control room of the Fire Service and Civil Defence.

Five firefighting units rushed to the spot and tamed the blaze, he said.

The cause of the fire could not be known immediately.