DAMMAM: Six workers, including four Bangladeshis, died in a fire which broke out at midnight in a Dammam factory on Monday.
Bangladesh Labor Counselor Sarwar Alam told a local daily that six workers were fast asleep inside the room when the fire broke out at 1:03 a.m. on Monday.
The fire victims were working for Al-Nasser Furniture Factory where sofas are manufactured.
The police have found five charred bodies out of the six who slept in the room, which included the remains of the four Bangladeshi workers and the fifth body is yet to be identified by the authorities.
According to Alam, the police had not still recovered the body of the sixth person who had slept in the room.
The counselor said the police have agreed to conduct DNA tests on all the bodies to determine the identities as the bodies were fully burned.
The dead among the Bangladeshi workers include Meer Rahman, 35, of Feni, Abu Musa, 53, and Ziaur Rahman, 45, of Comilla, and Abu Molla, 37, of Chandpur.
The Bangladesh mission has sent a diplomat and two legal assistants to look after the interests of the deceased.
The next-of-kin of the deceased in Bangladesh had requested the mission in Riyadh to dispatch the bodies to Dhaka. However, the counselor explained that could be done only after the DNA tests.
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