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An injured person is attended to at a hospital after a fire broke out as people gathered for a fireworks display. REUTERS


Over 100 Dead in Indian Temple Blaze

Over 100 Dead in Indian Temple Blaze

A massive fire sparked by fireworks swept through a temple in India’s southern Kerala state on Sunday, killing at least 100 people and injuring more than 200, police say. Thousands of devotees gathered into the Puttingal Devi temple in the coastal district of...
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Fire engulfs a tower at a residential cluster in the northern UAE emirate of Ajman early on March 29, 2016. The fire erupted at a building in the Ajman One residential cluster of 12 towers and spread to at least one other tower, Gulf News daily reported on its website. / AFP PHOTO / STR


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Seven people died after a fire tore through a tourism complex at a beach resort on the outskirts of the Algerian capital today, the civil defense service said


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A Bangladeshi Army soldier walks through rows of burnt sewing machines after a fire in the Tazreen Fashions plant in Savar, some 30 kilometers north of Dhaka. Bangladesh police on December 22, 2013, charged the owners and 11 others over the nation’s worst garment factory fire, which killed 111 people. (AFP Photo)


Owners, others charged in Bangladesh factory fire

Owners, others charged in Bangladesh factory fire

Dhaka, AP—Police in Bangladesh on Sunday charged the owners of a garment factory and 11 of their employees with culpable homicide for alleged negligence in a fire at the facility last year that killed 112 people. This is the first time such charges have been filed...
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Armed policemen cordon the area as fire engulf the International arrivals unit of Jomo Kenyatta International Airport, Nairobi, Kenya, Aug. 7, 2013. (AP Photo/Sayyid Azim)