A 40-year-old mentally challenged man kept chained by his family members was charred to death in a fire that broke out in his house in Chattogram in the small hours of Thursday.
T he deceased was identified as Mohammad Mujib, who owned the house in the Bagan Bazar area of Fatikchhari upazila.
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Shahadat Hossain Saju, chairman of Bagan Bazar union said, the fire broke out around 12am when the family was fast asleep and soon engulfed the entire building. "As Mujib was chained, he could not come out of the house and died in the fire."
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On information, a fire tender rushed to the spot, doused the flames and recovered the charred body of Mujib, father of two children, from the house. "The body has been sent for an autopsy," said an official.