Comilla, May 27 (UNB) - Ten Bangladeshi workers died of suffocation when a fire broke out at their rented house in Bahrain this (Sunday) morning.

Nine of the deceased were identified as Mohammad Hanif, 55, of Kalmia village, his brother-in-law Mohammad Sulaiman, 40, of Jashpur village, and son-in-law Monir Hossain, 33, of Jamira village, Nurul Islam, 45, of Shaker Monipur village, Anawr Hossain, 40, of Uttarda village, Siddiqur Rahman, 23, of Buschi Purbopara village and Abu Taher, 38, of Susanda village in Sadar South upazila of Comilla, Abul Hashem, 32, of Jugirkandi village in Chouddagram upazila, and Syed Ahmed, 35 of Hajiganj upazila of Chandpur district.

The other deceased who hailed from Brahmanbaria district could not be identified yet.

Family members of the deceased gave different accounts of the fire.

Some said the fire originated in the early hours after a gas cylinder exploded while others said the blaze erupted from an electrical short circuit at the house at Rifa, some 30 kilometres off capital Manama.

The Bangladeshi workers were suffocated to death as they could not come of the house amid dense smoke.