10,000 homeless after fire razes Bangladesh slum
By AFP
19 August 2019 |
3:58 pm
At least 10,000 people are homeless after a massive fire swept through a crowded slum in the Bangladeshi capital of Dhaka and destroyed thousands of shanties.
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