A fire at a house in Malaysia has left five Bangladeshis dead and two others injured.
The incident took place early Tuesday but details on the nature of the accident and the casualties were sketchy, Foreign Ministry's Director General (Consular) Laila Hossain told bdnews24.com on Tuesday.
Local people informed the Bangladesh Embassy in Kuala Lumpur of the accident, she said adding that the injured have been hospitalised.
Hossain said they were waiting for details.
Malaysian newspaper The Star, quoting national news agency Bernama, said five Bangladeshi men died in the fire that broke out around 3 am at Taman Puchong Perdana.
The dead were identified as Sarova Baboo, 'Ruman', Abdullah Al-Farhad and two brothers - Md Basir and Md Farouk.
The Bangladeshi nationals died when they were trapped in a double-storey terrace house they had rented, the report says.
The report quoted Selangor Fire and Rescue Department operations chief Mohamad Sani Harul as saying that the five were aged between 24 and 40.
He said seven Bangladeshi nationals were staying in the house but two of them survived while the other five were trapped in two rooms upstairs as they could not break the iron window grilles to get out, according to the newspaper report.
"A team from Bangladesh Embassy in Kuala Lumpur has gone to the scene. They will report after visiting the spot," the foreign ministry director general said.
The incident took place early Tuesday but details on the nature of the accident and the casualties were sketchy, Foreign Ministry's Director General (Consular) Laila Hossain told bdnews24.com on Tuesday.
Local people informed the Bangladesh Embassy in Kuala Lumpur of the accident, she said adding that the injured have been hospitalised.
Hossain said they were waiting for details.
Malaysian newspaper The Star, quoting national news agency Bernama, said five Bangladeshi men died in the fire that broke out around 3 am at Taman Puchong Perdana.
The dead were identified as Sarova Baboo, 'Ruman', Abdullah Al-Farhad and two brothers - Md Basir and Md Farouk.
The Bangladeshi nationals died when they were trapped in a double-storey terrace house they had rented, the report says.
The report quoted Selangor Fire and Rescue Department operations chief Mohamad Sani Harul as saying that the five were aged between 24 and 40.
He said seven Bangladeshi nationals were staying in the house but two of them survived while the other five were trapped in two rooms upstairs as they could not break the iron window grilles to get out, according to the newspaper report.
"A team from Bangladesh Embassy in Kuala Lumpur has gone to the scene. They will report after visiting the spot," the foreign ministry director general said.
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