1 Bangladeshi, 9 Indians killed in Maldives fire
At least 10 people, including one Bangladeshi and nine Indians, were killed and several others injured when a fire swept through cramped lodgings of foreign workers in the Maldives capital Male, AFP reported citing a security official.
The fire appeared to have originated from a ground-floor vehicle repair garage of a building and officials recovered the bodies from the upper floor, reports Hindustan Times.
"We have found 10 bodies," a fire service official said, adding that it took them about four hours to put out the fire, according to news agency AFP.
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Foreign workers are said to make up about half of Male's 250,000-strong population and mostly hail from Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.
