Eight children from Mali die in New York City fire
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Nine immigrants from Mali, including eight children, died in a house fire after flames raced up the stairs, trapping people on the second floor, officials said on Thursday.
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Two children and two women were killed early Monday in a fire at an apartment complex in suburban Detroit. The overnight fire seemed to have started in the kitchen on an electric stove, Southfield Fire Chief Peter Healy said.
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U.S. forces traded fire with insurgents in the Sunni stronghold of Ramadi following a series of raids, residents said Thursday, and at least eight people were reported killed.
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Nine children were among 14 people killed Thursday in a multiple-vehicle crash in South Africa's Eastern Cape province, the South African Press Association reported.
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COLUMBUS, Ohio - A suspected arson fire engulfed an apartment complex in suburban Columbus Sunday, killing eight people and forcing others to jump from third-story windows to escape, firefighters said.    The fire in Prairie Township came just six weeks after three fires were set in the same building in an empty apartment and hallway, said Fire Chief Steve Feustel...
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At least 88 people die in a fire at a crowded nightclub in the Argentine capital, Buenos Aires, officials say.
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A fire engulfed a dilapidated house early Sunday, killing a mother and four children who were staying in the home despite relatives' warnings that it was unsafe, officials said.
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A mortar strike in Somalia killed eight members of a family at a refugee camp on Sunday in the latest bloodshed of fighting between Islamist-led rebels and country's interim government, witnesses said.
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House fires in Kentucky and Tennessee on Tuesday killed 14 people, 10 of them children, officials said.
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A house fire killed three children and their bodies were buried inside when part of the structure collapsed into the basement, a fire official said Wednesday.
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The two people who died in a fire tackled by more than 20 firefighters were a mother and her daughter.
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Fire broke out inside a Boston restaurant, killing two firefighters and injuring eight others who became disoriented in the dense smoke, officials said Thursday.
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A fire swept through a rowhouse, killing four people, including two children, officials said.
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CHICAGO, Sept. 4 -- Candles used for light in an apartment without electricity probably caused a fire that killed six children inside, a fire official said Monday as investigators continued sifting through debris.
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Eight children and one adult perished in the blaze, one of New York's deadliest in years, which may have resulted from a space heater or overloaded power strip
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JABALIYA, Gaza Strip : Eight Palestinians, including a child and a teenage girl, were killed by Israeli fire in the Gaza Strip as the army warned its massive offensive could last for weeks.
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Philadelphia -- A fast-moving arson fire killed six people in a rowhouse before dawn Saturday, four of them children, police said.