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Sun, 05/02/2010 - 17:47
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Fire in Moscow apartment block leaves one person dead.

MOSCOW, May 2 (Itar-Tass) -- Fire that broke out overnight to Sunday
on the third story of an apartment block in northern Moscow claimed the
life of one person and left several more people injured, a source at
Moscow City's Interior Department told Itar-Tass.
The incident occurred in a twelve-story block on Zelenogradskaya
Street in northern Moscow.
"A man's body was found in the apartment where the blaze broke out,"
the source said.
"Some people had to jump out of the windows of lower stories before
the arrival of firefighters and several others got intoxication with
smoke," he indicated, adding that physicians do not find the condition of
the injured problematic.
Although the overall area taken up by the blaze did not exceed 50
square meters, a part of the house's residents were evacuated.
At the time of reporting, experts were clearing out the causes of the
fire.

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