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Bangladesh: 12 cotton-laden Tk9 crore worth trucks burnt at Petrapole before entering Bangladesh
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DHAKA, 08 November 2021, (TON): A devastating fire at India’s Petrapole land port has burnt 12 trucks waiting in a parking lot to enter Bangladesh’s Benapole land port with imported cotton.
The fire broke out in the early hours of Sunday at Jayantipur Luxmi truck parking lot and quickly engulfed trucks parked there.
However, no casualties have been reported.
Kartik Chakraborty, general secretary of the Petrapole Port Staff Welfare Association of India, said “a truck with cotton waiting to be exported to Bangladesh caught fire in the Jayantipur Lakshi truck parking lot near Petrapole port this morning. Later, fire broke out in 11 other cotton trucks nearby and they were also burnt down.”
He said that the other cotton loaded trucks managed to move elsewhere.
On information, members of the fire service arrived from Banga and Gobradanga and doused the fire at around 5am after hours of effort.
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