Quick Facts: 11 People Killed in Slum Fire in Dhaka, Bangladesh Bangladesh Moderate // Fire DHAKA -- Fire service officials said 11 people were killed when a fire engulfed a slum area in the Bangladeshi capital during the wee hours of Sunday. According to Ataur Rahman, the officer on duty at the fire station in Dhaka, the blaze started in a slum located in the Hazaribagh area at about 3 a.m. (local time) leaving 11 people dead, including five women and four children. However, Rahman failed to provide the exact number of injured victims. The blaze may have been ignited by a cigarette butt thrown at a rickshaw garage and then managed to spread to the slum. Rahman said the fire damaged more than 1,000 shanties, adding that the flames have already been extinguished and the bodies of the victims have been retrieved. The capital of Bangladesh, Dhaka has a population of more than 15.2 million and has about 5,000 slum areas which serve as home to day laborers.