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Nimtoli blaze left some things intact

Shaheen Mollah
Mohammad Didar had given his eight-year-old daughter Ardita a piggy bank to save coins. The plastic bank was intact inside a wardrobe when all three members of his nuclear family died inside the flat in the Nimtoli inferno on June 3.
Didar also lost 11 members of his extended family in the blaze.
"I gave the bank to my daughter as she wanted it. She would put coins into it and kept the bank inside the wardrobe," said Didar.
Ardita, who was a class-II student of the city's Udayan Girls' School, died in the inferno that engulfed eight residential buildings and over 20 shops at Nimtoli of Old Dhaka.The blaze left 121 dead.
Surprisingly, much of the furniture, clothes, documents, stored money and the other belongings of the residents of that building remained unscathed. Only the
furniture of one flat of the eight-flat five-storey building was burnt but all the 41 people who were inside the building on that night of horror had died.
Sofas, beds, cots, almirah, wardrobes and other furniture inside the seven flats of the building, owned by Didar and his two brothers, seemed not to have received a scratch.
They now call up memories of the people who once used them.
"I found intact Tk 500 and Tk 100 notes inside the wardrobe," said Didar who used to stay in a third-floor flat with his wife and two children. He said clothes and other stuff inside the wardrobe were in perfect condition too.
He collected them Thursday.
Documents and other papers in another flat owned by Didar's brother Mohammad Gulzar on the fourth floor were also found intact. Gulzar collected the documents last week.
In another flat of the building, where the
engagement ceremony of Runa was going on that night, sofas, almirah, wardrobes, beds, cots and other furniture were in almost perfect shape. Only, the door and window curtains were burnt. All 16 people who were inside the flat during the fire died, said Qamruzzaman Sumon, uncle of Runa, who was married off recently at Gonobhaban.
The ground floor of the building was rented out and it was used for storing flammable chemicals, which basically intensified the blaze. Five tenant families and three families of the owners used to live in the upper floors of the building.
Furniture and other goods in the flats of the building are yetto be removed.
Abdur Rashid, a deputy director of the Fire Brigade and Civil Defence, said, "The flames went upwards as they came in contact with the flammable chemicals. But the flames had not entered most of the flats and that is why the furniture were not burnt. ”
Rashid said many died in the building due to poisonous gas inhalation and the extreme heat of the flames.