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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Fire kills 9   A fire tore through a house in a central Russian region yesterday, killing nine people, including four children, emergency officials said.
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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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Hundreds of mourners gathered Saturday to remember five children who died in a row house fire, while investigators tried to determine whether they were left alone or in the care of a baby sitter.
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Four people died and eight were injured in  a stadium crush after Togo's World Cup qualifier against Mali,  a government statement said Monday.
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A woman with stab wounds and her young child were found dead inside a burning house Friday night, and three of her other children pulled from the fire died later at a hospital, police said.
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KINSHASA, Congo  - Attackers overran a sleeping village in east Congo's lawless Ituri province Monday and slaughtered 14 residents, including seven children who were burned alive, a UN spokeswoman said.
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Carbon monoxide fumes kill eight people in the US and Canada after a storm leaves thousands without power.
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A 7-year-old girl lost her two-day battle for life, becoming the 10th victim of a devastating Bronx fire that also killed all her siblings and her mother.
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A boat carrying Haitian migrants caught fire off the coast of the Dominican Republic, leaving at least eight passengers dead and 44 missing, a U.S. Coast Guard spokesman said Thursday.
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Thirty-eight people died and 200 were  injured Monday when a faulty electrical heater started a blaze  in a Tehran mosque crowded with worshippers for a major Shi'ite  Muslim festival, Iranian state media reported.
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A fast-moving fire killed six people in a rowhouse before dawn Saturday, four of them children.
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Fire swept through a third-floor apartment on Chicago's North Side early Sunday, killing six children and injuring their mother and three siblings, authorities said.
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Sixteen people died and at least as many were missing after a fire broke out on an Indonesian ferry off Jakarta Bay on Thursday, with some desperate passengers hurling themselves off the blazing vessel into the sea.
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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.