New Paris blaze kills seven immigrants

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PARIS (AFP) - A blaze in a rundown building housing African immigrants in Paris -- the second in four days -- killed seven people overnight, officials said, deepening a sense of shock over the plight of France's impoverished non-citizens.

Officials said Tuesday that four children and three adults died after the blaze broke out in the stairwell of the dilapidated five-storey tenement in which they were squatting.

The fire occurred in the Marais, a historic central district popular with tourists, at 10:00 pm (2000 GMT) Monday.

One of the children received fatal injuries in jumping from a fourth-floor window, firefighters said.

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And the story you posted:
Seven Africans die in another Paris apartment fire

Mark Tran and agencies
Tuesday August 30, 2005


Seven African immigrants, including four children, died when a fire swept through their dilapidated apartment in Paris, firefighters said today.

The latest fire comes just days after a blaze killed 17 Africans in Paris, and four months after 24 people died in a similar fire at a budget hotel housing African immigrants.

Bambaya Coumba, an Ivorian living in the building where the latest blaze happened, said he saw people jumping out of the window

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About 130 firefighters battled the blaze in the building, which housed 25 families, many of them from the Ivory Coast. The authorities had known conditions were "absolutely inadmissible and dangerous", said Pierre Aidenbaum, the district mayor.

http://www.guardian.co.uk/france/story/0,11882,1559124,00.html