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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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