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A SURVIVOR of a fire which ripped through a tent in Camp Bastion has told an inquest how he could hear a North-East soldier who perished in the blaze calling out his name.
Private Sikeli Ratu told the hearing how he was woken by the smell of smoke, and as he fled to raise the alarm the flames took hold of the canvas tent.
Privates Dean Hutchinson, 23, from Spennymoor, County Durham, and Rob Wood, 28, from Hampshire, were killed when the fire broke out in the Transport Troop tent in the early hours of February 14, 2011.
Pte Ratu told the inquest: "I smelled smoke. I could smell burning and saw flames jumping from the edge of the table and catch the tent.