Four Bangladeshi workers were burnt alive in sleep when a fire engulfed their house in the Saudi Arabian city of Dammam, 600 km from the capital Riyadh, on Friday, a witness said.
‘The dead are Hafizur Rahman Titu, Shafiq, Sattar and Abdul Kader,’ Mahmud Hossain Palash, their neighbour, told New Age over phone Friday night.
‘All of them are above 32 and drivers by profession. Of them Hafizur and Shafiq were from Faridpur district while Sattar from Dohar in Dhaka’, he said adding, ‘The permanent address of Abdul Kader could not be ascertained as yet. I have heard that he used to live in a rented house at Jatrabari in Dhaka.’
‘The fire is believed to have originated from a gas burner at a kitchen at about 12:30 pm (Saudi standard time) and quickly engulfed the room as they were asleep’, said Mahmud Hossain who said his residence was about 50 yards from the place.
‘Police have taken away the charred bodies at about 2:30 pm’, he said.
Source: New Age of 09-08-2008
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