10 people lost their lives…
In Maldives capital, On Thursday 10 people lost their lives and several other were injured when a fire occurred through camped lodgings of foreign workers, the fire service said.
In the fire 9 Indian’s were found killed while officials recovered 10 bodies from the upper floor of the building which was destroyed in the fire.
The fire has been originated from a ground -floor vehicle garage.
“They have found 10 bodies”, adding in it, it took them about four hours to put out the fire, a fire service official said, according to news agency AFP.
A person from Bangladesh national, were also killed in the fire, AFP reported citing a security official.
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.
During the Covid-19 pandemic when the infection spread three times faster among foreign workers compared with locals, at that time their poor living conditions were brought to light.
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