Bagerhat, March 27 -- A massive fire that erupted in the Shaplar Beel area of the Sundarbans on Sunday morning was fully doused on Thursday.

A total of 168 fire service personnel from 10 units extinguished the fire by 12 pm, said Sakaria Haider, deputy assistant director (DAD) of the Bagerhat Fire Service and Civil Defence.

"Since there was no water source nearby, they had to struggle to extinguish the fire," he added.

Dipen Chandra Das, assistant conservator of forests (ACF) for the Chandpai Range in the Sundarbans East Division, said the affected area would be closely monitored for the next seven days.

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