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At Least Nine Die In Second Russian Hospital Fire
December 10, 2006
December 10, 2006 -- Officials in Russia say at least nine people have been killed and 15 others injured in a fire at a health clinic in Siberia, the second deadly fire to strike a health facility in two days.
Authorities have suggested both blazes might have been set deliberately.
Officials are quoted as saying the more recent fire broke out overnight at a psycho-neurological clinic near the town of Taiga in the Kemerovo region.
Authorities said arson is being investigated as a possible cause.
More than 220 people were reported inside the building when the fire broke out.
At least
45 women died in a fire at a drug-rehabilitation center in Moscow early on December 9 in a suspected arson attack.
(ITAR-TASS, AFP)