Savar: Five workers were injured as a fire erupted at a medicine factory in Dhamrai municipality area, Savar, on Wednesday morning.

Fire service officials said the fire broke out at about 7:00am inside a printing section of Acme Laboratories and it soon engulfed fisheries section of the company.

Firefighters from Dhamrai and EPZ Fire Stations rushed to the spot and brought the fire under control after half an hour.

Five workers of the company were injured while they were dousing the fire and coming out of the factory.

The injured were admitted to different local clinics and hospitals.

The origin of the fire, or the losses, could not be ascertained immediately.