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Blaze at Homeless Shelter Kills 21 in Poland


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Dee
- 252 days ago - news.yahoo.com
WARSAW, Poland - A fast-moving fire tore through a three-story building housing homeless families in northwestern Poland early Monday, killing at least 21 people and injuring 20 more, including an infant, officials said.
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Dee C. (528)
Monday April 13, 2009, 8:29 am
"The blaze broke out around 1 a.m. in a shelter for people waiting for social housing in Kamien Pomorski, 370 miles (600 kilometers) northwest of the Polish capital and near the Baltic Sea coast, said Pawel Fratczak, a spokesman for Poland's national firefighters.

"While searching the building again this morning, we found the bodies of three more people, raising the toll to 21 dead," Fratczak said. "It is going to be hard to identify many of them quickly because they are so badly burned."

Footage broadcast on TVN24 taken when firefighters first arrived on the scene showed the stone and metal building engulfed in flames, while in later video firefighters picked through the building's charred, gutted shell with axes.

It was not immediately clear what caused the blaze, but police and fire investigators were examining the scene for clues."

What a sad tragedy..
 
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