Fire at School Kills 8 Boys, Destroys Buildings
From Times Wire Reports
CHINA
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Fire broke out in a boarding school dormitory in southwestern China, killing eight boys ages 7 to 13, local officials said.
The fire broke out late Sunday at a school in Yangjie, a town near the city of Kunming in Yunnan province, a town official said.
An officer at county police headquarters said authorities suspected that a faulty power cable caused the fire, which took three hours to extinguish and destroyed four classrooms and seven other school buildings.
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