“Yusuf Furniture in Sanaiyat, Sharjah, Abu Dhabi”

Four Bangladeshi workers have died in a fire at a sofa factory in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.

The fire was reported in the factory of Yusuf Furniture in Sanaiyat, Sharjah, Abu Dhabi, on Tuesday morning.

The deceased were Md Yusuf Miah, 45, son of Abdul Kader, Tarek Hossain Badol, 42, son of Mir Hossain, and Md Rasel, 26, son of Abdul Wahab, hailing from Tarabaria village under ward No 2 of Dumurua union in Senbagh upazila of Noakhali, and Md Sumon from Comilla's Nangalkot upazila…

Rasel's mother Sharifa Begum said: “Rasel was the second of two brothers and two sisters. He has left behind a one-and-a-half-year-old daughter, who has been sick for a long time. Rasel went to Abu Dhabi in 2022 taking out a loan of Tk6-7 lakh. He took a job in that sofa factory because there were some others in the same area…

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