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Syeda Rizwana Hasan | File photo

Bangladesh鈥檚 interim government environment adviser Syeda Rizwana Hasan on Thursday said that a committee had been formed which would submit the primary report on the source and reasons of the secretariat fire incident within the next three days.

At a press briefing held at the Foreign Services Academy in Dhaka on Thursday evening she also said that after the incident they did not find the benefits of so called digitalisation of the country.


A fire broke out at building number 7 of Bangladesh Secretariat in Dhaka on early Thursday. It was brought under control in the morning, the Fire Service officials said.

It took 19 units of the fire service and scores of fire fighters at least six hours to tame the blaze.