Warehouse fire kills 13 in Kazakhstan

by Indo Asian News Service on November 9, 2009

in International

Almaty, Nov 9 (IANS) Thirteen people were burned to death after a fire broke out at a warehouse in the Kazakhstan capital Monday, media reports said.

The incident took place at around 5.00 p.m. in a plastic-foam warehouse, Xinhua reported.

The fire was put out after it engulfed an area of about 8,000 sq metres, an official of the Kazakhstan Emergency Situations Ministry said.

Twenty-five fire engines were deployed to put out the fire. The cause of the fire was not immediately known.

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