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‘We have nothing now’: Dhaka slum dwellers reel after blaze
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August 18, 2019
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 Aug.18.
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‘We have nothing now’: Dhaka slum dwellers reel after blaze
Description
August 18, 2019
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 Aug.18.
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