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China Daily | Updated: 2009-02-16 07:36
Apartment fire kills 15
Emergency officials say fire ripped through an apartment building in southern Russia killing 15 people.
Officials say the fire destroyed about two-thirds of the three-story building before it could be put out. Seven people were taken to hospital.
Investigators said they were looking into arson or careless use of electric heaters as possible causes for the fire early yesterday. Nearly 100 people living in the building in Molodyozhny village in the Astrakhan region were evacuated to a nearby school.
(China Daily 02/16/2009 page7)
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