Dhaka, May 27 -- The Fire Service and Civil Defence sent three units to the private facility after the fire broke out around 10pm on Wednesday at the coronavirus camp constructed outside the main building to treat COVID-19 patients.

The patients on the front side of the four-room unit came out when the fire erupted, said Kamrul Islam, an official at the fire service's control room.

When the fire crews brought the flames under control after around half an hour, five bodies were found in one of the rooms, Kamrul said.

The dead included four men and a woman, he added.

They have been identified as Md Mahbub, 50, Md Monir Hossain, 75, Vernon Anthony Paul, 74, Khodaja Begum, 70, and Riaz Ul Alam, 45.

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