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About 3,000 homeless as fire consumes Bangladesh slum

About 3,000 homeless as fire consumes Bangladesh slum. [Reuters]

About 3,000 people in Bangladesh were left homeless after a massive fire consumed several hundred shanties in a slum on the northern outskirts of the capital city of Dhaka, government officials said on Sunday.

Three people were injured in the blaze that struck a congested slum in Mirpur town on Friday night.

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