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A fire in a Hong Kong tourist market and residential tower has killed at least nine people and injured 30.
Fire crews were called to the Ladies Market in the Mong Kok area of Kowloon after the blaze started before dawn.
The narrow market was described by witnesses as a wall of flame and thick black smoke as the fire ripped through street hawkers’ lightweight stalls and flats above.
Local television showed firemen pulling survivors and body bags from rooftops and ...
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A male nurse has been charged with multiple counts of murder after five elderly residents were killed following a fire at a nursing home in Australia.
Roger Dean, 35, who worked at the Quakers Hill Nursing Home in Sydney, appeared via video link at Parramatta Court on Saturday morning – but said nothing.
He did not apply for bail and was remanded in custody to re-appear in court on Thursday.
Hundreds of firefighters, police and paramedics raced to the nursing home to ...
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Four of the 17 injured in a fire in Vietnam’s northern Haiphong city on Friday afternoon succumbed to their heavy burns Saturday morning, increasing the total death toll to 17.
According to Vietnam News Agency, the fire broke out about 4:30 p.m. local time on Friday, at a private shoe-making workshop in Haiphong city.
Local witnesses said that welding slag dropped on spongy materials and ignited them as a welder hired by owners was erecting an anti-lightening pole to brace for the ...
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