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Nine die in New York fire

NEW YORK: A devastating fire swept through a three-storey brick home, killing eight children and one adult and leaving several others seriously injured in one of New York City's deadliest blazes in recent memory, authorities said. A relative said the residents were immigrants from Mali. Witnesses described a ghastly sight of seeing a woman hurl children through broken windows late on Wednesday night in hopes of saving them from the raging inferno. Fire Department spokesman Seth Andrews confirmed the death toll. Investigators were at the scene trying to determine the cause, which was not immediately known. At least 10 persons were injured, five of them seriously in the blaze in the largely residential neighbourhood in the Bronx, one of New York City's five boroughs. — AP

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