Fire breaks out near hotel in Cox's Bazar's Kalatoli zone, four fire units bring it under control

A fire broke out in the Kalatoli hotel-motel zone of Cox's Bazar town on Tuesday morning. The blaze started around 6 a.m. in a residential house adjacent to a hotel on Saikatpara Road.

Four units of the Fire Service are working to control the fire with the help of local residents.

Syed Muhammad Morshed Hossain, deputy assistant director of the Cox's Bazar Fire Service and Civil Defence, confirmed the incident.

He told Dhaka Post that four units reached the scene with the necessary firefighting equipment after receiving the report. The fire is largely under control, he said.

He added that it could not immediately be said how the fire started or how much damage it caused. More details will be known later.

There are several hotels and resorts around the site of the fire.

Tourists staying in those hotels and residents of nearby settlements came out onto the road after the fire broke out, according to reports.

Earlier, on October 17, a fire at the Inani TupTup Resort in Ukhia, near Marine Drive in Cox's Bazar, killed 11 tourists.

Six days later, on October 23, a fire broke out at Hotel Sea Princess at Sugandha Point in the town. But the blaze was brought under control quickly, so there was no major damage there.

The Fire Service said more details about the cause of the fire and the extent of the damage will be shared later.