Online Desk: Four Bangladeshi workers have burnt to death in a fire at a sofa factory in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates. The deceased were Md Yusuf Miah, 45, son of Abdul Quader, Tareq Hossain Badol, 42, son of Mir Hossain, and Md Rassel, 26, son of Abdul Wahab, and Md Sumon. All of them hailed from Noakhali’s Senbagh upazila.

The fire originated at Yusuf Furniture in Sanaiyat, Sharjah, Abu Dhabi, on Tuesday morning (Bangladesh time). Quoting the family members, Domurua Union Parishad chairman Shawkat Hossain Kanon said a pall of gloom descended in the area. The family members of the deceased requested to back the bodies in the country.

Deceased Russel’s relatives said like other days, Rassel talked to the family around 1am on Monday. It was his last time talk with the family. On Tuesday, his family came to know that Rassel burnt to death in the sofa factory fire in sleep.