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AsiaPac · 15 mins ago

Kolkata hotel fire: Two more Bangladeshis identified among dead

Latest confirmations raise Bangladeshi death toll to 7 8 MIN(s) UPDATED 8 MIN(s) Two more Bangladeshi nationals have been identified among those killed in the devastating fire at a hotel in India's Kolkata, raising the number of confirmed Bangladeshi victims to seven.The latest victims were identified as Alimuzzaman Saju, 48, and Rebati Sarkar, 35, both residents of Kaliganj upazila in Satkhira.News of their deaths reached their families around 10:00pm yesterday, casting a pall of grief over the area.Saju, a shrimp farm businessman from Boreya village under Tarali Union, had travelled to India about a week ago for treatment of back pain, according to his relatives."He was supposed to return home yesterday. Instead, we received news that he had died in the fire at Hotel Shikha Inn in Kolkat
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