10,000 homeless after fire razes Bangladesh slum
Authorities eventually got the blaze under control and no-one was killed, although several people had minor injuries (AFP Photo/MUNIR UZ ZAMAN)/ At least 10,000 people are homeless after a massive fire swept through a crowded slum in the Bangladesh capital and destroyed thousands of shanties, officials said Sunday. The fire broke out at in Dhaka's Mirpur neighbourhood late on Friday and razed around 2,000 mostly tin shacks, fire services official Ershad Hossain told AFP. "I could not salvage a single thing. I don't know what will I do," ...
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