17 Die in Paris Apartment House Fire
From Times Wire Reports
A fire raced through a Paris apartment building housing African immigrant families, killing at least 17 people, several of them children, police said.
About 100 children and 30 adults lived in the building, mostly immigrants from Mali and neighboring Senegal, police said. About 30 people were injured.
The fire broke out in the stairwell of the six-story building in the southeastern 13th district.
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