It has been possible to save 80 percent of unrefined sugar in the warehouse of S Alam Sugar Mill in Chattogram’s  Karnaphuli police station area, Director General of Fire Service and Civil Defense Directorate Brigadier General Md. Mine Uddin

He said this in response to questions from media persons in Chattogram  on Thursday afternoon.

Main Uddin said, ‘S Alam Sugar Refinery Factory caught fire on March 4 and we controlled the fire at 10:30 p.m. that day, the fire is still burning slowly. We think that even if the fire cannot be completely extinguished by today Inshallah; There may be small pockets but we will assume firefighting.

“The best news is, there was about 116,000 metric tons of raw sugar—80 percent of which we’ve been able to save,” he said.

A five-member investigation committee has been formed in this incident, he said, ‘to learn the reason as well as to learn from here. This is the first such big fire related to sugar in Bangladesh and we have to learn from here.’

Meanwhile, since the fire broke out in the sugar warehouse of S.Alam, Chattogram  residents are in a state of panic. The month of Ramzan is coming, sugar consumption is high in various foods including juice every day. Various questions of ordinary people? Common people panic about the price of sugar.