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Nine Indians among 10 foreigners killed in Maldives fire

Updated on: 10 November,2022 01:51 PM IST  |  Maldives
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Officials said 10 bodies were recovered from the upper floor of a building destroyed in the fire, which originated from a ground-floor vehicle repair garage

Nine Indians among 10 foreigners killed in Maldives fire

Firefighters try to douse a fire that broke out in a building lodging foreign workers in Maldives capital Male. Pic/AFP

At least 10 people were killed and several others injured Thursday when a fire swept through cramped lodgings of foreign workers in the Maldives capital Male, the fire service said.


The capital of the archipelago best known as an upmarket holiday destination is one of the world's most densely populated cities.


Officials said 10 bodies were recovered from the upper floor of a building destroyed in the fire, which originated from a ground-floor vehicle repair garage.


"We have found 10 bodies," a fire service official said, adding that it took them about four hours to put out the fire.

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A security official said the dead included nine Indians and a Bangladesh national.

Maldivian political parties have criticised conditions for foreign workers.

They are thought to make up about half of Male's 250,000-strong population and are mostly from Bangladesh, India, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka.

Their poor living conditions were brought to light during the Covid-19 pandemic when the infection spread three times faster among foreign workers compared with locals.

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