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11 dead in Dhaka slum fire
Sunday November 18, 2012 03:19:28 PM,
IANS
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Dhaka: At least 11
people, including four children and five women, were burnt to
death here after fire engulfed a slum early Sunday, according to
fire officials.
The blaze, which was doused later, broke out in a slum in the
city's Hazaribagh residential area at around 3 a.m., killing 11
people, reported Xinhua quoting Ataur Rahman, a fire service
official. The number of injured was yet to be confirmed.
He said the fire might have been sparked by a cigarette butt in a
rickshaw garage and spread to the slum, damaging over 1,000
shanties.
Rahman said the toll was high since people were asleep.
The capital city of Dhaka, having a population of over 15 million
people, has some 5,000 slum areas.
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