A massive fire has ravaged through several thousand shanties at a slum in Mirpur 7 of Dhaka leaving thousands of the lower-income people homeless in despair.
As many as 125 firefighters worked for a hectic three-hour to tame the flame before it gutted over sevreal thousands shanties at Mirpur's Chalantika slum on Friday (Aug 16), said the Fire Service and Civil Defence.
Here are some pictures of fire and its aftermaths.