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Pakistani security personnel look on as firefighters extinguish a blaze which gutted a historical building in Ziarat, 80 kilometres southeast of Quetta, on June 15, 2013. Source: AFP Photo/Banaras Khan


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Rescue workers clear the debris at the site of a fire at a chicken processing plant in Dehui, Jilin province, June 4, 2013. (REUTERS Photo)


Fire, locked doors kill 119 at China poultry plant

Fire, locked doors kill 119 at China poultry plant

Beijing, AP—A swift-moving fire trapped panicked workers inside a poultry slaughterhouse in northeastern China that had only a single open exit, killing at least 119 people in one of the country’s worst industrial disasters in years. Survivors described workers,...
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Firemen extinguish a blaze at a nursery school in the Stockholm suburb of Kista after youths rioted in several different suburbs around Stockholm, Sweden for a fourth consecutive night on May 24, 2013. (AFP/Jonathan Nackstand)


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An investigator surveys the scene of a fire at a garment factory in Dhaka, Bangladesh, Thursday, May 9, 2013. (AP Photo)


Bangladesh Fire Kills 8 as Collapse Toll Hits 950

Bangladesh Fire Kills 8 as Collapse Toll Hits 950

DHAKA, Bangladesh (AP)—A fire fed by huge piles of acrylic products used to make sweaters killed eight people at a Bangladesh garment factory, barely two weeks after a collapse at another garment factory building where the death toll was approaching 1,000 on Thursday....
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Syrian refugees watch as a fire sends black smoke rising over the Zaatari refugee camp in northeast Jordan, Friday, March 8, 2013. (AP Photo: Raad Adayleh)


Syrian Refugee Dies in Tent Blaze

Syrian Refugee Dies in Tent Blaze

Amman, Asharq Al-Awsat—A Syrian refugee has died while his two children sustained third-degree burns in the early hours of Sunday morning after their tent caught fire in Zaatari refugee camp. Colonel Farid Al-Shara, director of information for Jordanian Civil Defense,...