Over 30 shanties were gutted in a fire that broke out at TT Para sweeper slum in Dhaka’s Kamalapur area on 2 pm midnight of 27th june 2020, 13 fire fighting units rushed to the spot and doused the blaze after around one and a half hours of frantic effort. Over 100 tamil sweepers (city cleaners) & about 30 bangali local sweepers lives in the slum since 1971.
