Fire that broke out in the Amurbunia area at Chandpai range of the Sundarbans East Zone on Saturday could not be doused fully on Monday.
However, government agencies claimed that the fire could be bring under control at 10:30am on the day.
Fire service director (operation and maintenance) Mohammad Tajul Islam Chowdhury said that no flame of fire was noticed after 10:30am though normal smokes detected at some spots.
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Meanwhile, home minister Asaduzzaman Khan on Monday informed the cabinet that the Sundarbans fire remained under control, said cabinet secretary Md Mahbub Hossain.
The minister also informed the meeting that the situation in the Sundarbans would be monitored for few days as forest fire was not like usual fire.
On Saturday, locals detected a fire at Sundarbans that spread over more than two square kilometres in the mangrove forest on Sunday.
Fire service officials said that a fire breaking line was made to keep the fire under control. More fire-fighters would be deployed in next 2/3 days until the fire fully doused.
The fire service, Bangladesh Air Force, Bangladesh Navy, district administration and police are working all together to control the fire. They are using drone to detect and monitor the fire situation in the deep forest. Local volunteers have also joined them.
Fire service officials said that they were facing an acute water crisis as they had to draw water from the Bhola and the Shewla rivers, roughly 2.5 kilometres away from the spot, while the spot was a deep forest with security crisis.
The ministry of environment, forest and climate change in a press release, however, said that five acres of forest damaged due to the fire that spread 7.9 acres.
Department of forest formed another committee on Monday to investigate the biodiversity lose due to the fire. Khulna range conservator of forests Mihir Kumar Doe was made head of the committee to submit the report within 10 working days with recommendations.
On Sunday, the department formed a three-member probe committee, led by Rana Dev, assistant conservator of forests of Chandpai range of the Sundarbans, to find out the cause of the fire and assess the damages.
The committee had been asked to submit their report within seven days.