{"id":3895,"date":"2026-10-07T09:49:24","date_gmt":"2026-10-07T09:49:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dhakastatement.com\/?p=3895"},"modified":"2026-10-07T09:49:24","modified_gmt":"2026-10-07T09:49:24","slug":"historic-cinema-hall-20-shops-gutted-in-mymensingh-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dhakastatement.com\/?p=3895","title":{"rendered":"Historic cinema hall, 20 shops gutted in Mymensingh fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A devastating fire destroyed historic Jhalmhal Cinema Hall and around 20 adjoining business establishments in Gauripur municipality of Mymensingh early Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The fire broke started around 2:15am apparently from a LPG gas cylinder warehouse near the cinema hall, said Fire Service and Civil Defence Assistant Director Purna Chandra Mutsuddi.<\/p>\n<p>Four units of the Fire Service and Civil Defence rushed to the scene and brought the blaze under control after nearly two hours of efforts.<\/p>\n<p>The fire completely gutted the cinema hall and 15-20 adjoining businesses including the LPG cylinder warehouse, a decoration shop and a second-hand clothing shop.<\/p>\n<p>Local administration and Fire Service officials are working to assess the extent of damage.<\/p>\n<p>The exact amount of financial losses will be determined after an investigation, officials said.<\/p>\n<p>Jhalmhal Cinema Hall is housed in a historic century-old zamindar mansion in Gauripur. The old zamindar residence had been used as the venue for the cinema hall.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>-UNB<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A devastating fire destroyed historic Jhalmhal Cinema Hall and around 20 adjoining&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3896,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_lmt_disableupdate":"","_lmt_disable":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[174,118],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-bangladesh","category-country"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dhakastatement.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3895","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dhakastatement.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dhakastatement.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dhakastatement.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dhakastatement.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3895"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dhakastatement.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3895\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3897,"href":"https:\/\/dhakastatement.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3895\/revisions\/3897"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dhakastatement.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3896"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dhakastatement.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dhakastatement.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dhakastatement.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}