"We can't be at every junction all the time and such measures help" said Ramachandra, a traffic police sub-inspector.

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One of the participants, Sub-Inspector Bikram Khadka, said the yoga camp had helped him realise how to take his weight problem.

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Police sub-inspector Mostofa Chowdhury told the AFP agency that some workers had complained that emergency exits from the building were locked.

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The victims comprised of an assistant police sub-inspector and three members of the Frontier Corps, a paramilitary force which uses recruits from Pakistan's tribal areas and is overseen by Pakistani army officers.

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