Fire at Moscow drug rehab clinic kills 43
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A fire at a Moscow drug rehabilitation  hospital on Saturday killed 43 people, most of them young  female drug addicts, officials said.
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Video image of hostages sitting below explosives strung from basketball hoops in the gymnasium of a school in Beslan, Russia. Photograph: NTV/AP.
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MOSCOW, Mar 7 (IPS) - Russia is losing one in ten people in its active   population to drugs, a leading medical researcher told IPS.
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A fire at a Moscow drug rehabilitation  clinic on Saturday killed 45 female patients and staff whose  attempts to flee were hampered by metal grilles blocking escape  routes, emergency services said.
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A fire at a Russian psychiatric hospital  killed nine people and wounded 16, local media reported on  Sunday, just over a day after a blaze at a hospital in Moscow  killed 45 women.
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UP to seven people were killed today in an attack on a police station in Grozny, the capital of the Russian breakaway republic of Chechnya, the Interfax news agency reported.
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MOSCOW, Dec. 9 -- Fire tore through a Moscow drug treatment hospital early Saturday while patients slept, killing 42 people, fire officials said.
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MOSCOW -- The locked gates and barred windows that kept 45 women from escaping a fire early yesterday at a drug treatment center pointed to conditions now common in post-Soviet Russia's state-run institutions.
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A blaze at a home for the elderly in the Russian village of Yekaterinovka left 10 people dead and four hospitalized early Thursday.  The fire started in the top floor of a three-story building of the seniors boarding house, Itar-Rass reported.
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Seventeen people have died in New York City in the past three months after overdosing on illegal drugs laced with the prescription painkiller fentanyl, authorities said Tuesday.
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MOSCOW  - Forensic tests have shown that some of the militants who took more than 1,000 people hostage in a school in the southern Russian town of Beslan last month were drug addicts, a senior prosecutor was quoted as saying Sunday.
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Text of report by Russian news agency RIA Novosti  Kirov, 31 January: An investigation has been launched into the death of a serviceman belonging to a regiment guarding the Maradykovskiy [Maradykovo] plant for the destruction of chemical weapons in Kirov Region.
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A blaze swept through a nursing home in Siberia yesterday, killing at least 10 people, officials said, the latest in a series of deadly fires in Russia, many of them caused by neglect of safety rules.
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MOSCOW -- A fire broke out in a women's ward of a Moscow drug treatment hospital early today, killing 42 people who were trapped by a locked gate and barred windows, officials said.
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The locked gates and barred windows that kept 45 women from escaping a fire early Saturday at a drug treatment center pointed to conditions now common in post-Soviet Russia's state-run institutions.
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BESLAN, Russia  -- More than 340 people, including 155 children, were killed in the violence that ended a hostage standoff with militants at a southern Russian school, a prosecutor said Saturday. President Vladimir Putin accused the attackers of trying to spark an ethnic conflict that would engulf Russia's troubled Caucasus Mountains region.
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MOSCOW: At least ten people were killed and 51 others were injured after an explosion on Tuesday outside a Moscow subway station that the Russian security service blamed on a female suicide bomber.