Sixteen killed in house fire in village near Kiev

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KIEV, Sha'ban 22, 1437, May 29, 2016, SPA -- Sixteen people have been killed and one is missing after a fire broke out in a residential building housing elderly people in a village near Kiev, Ukraine's state emergency service said in a statement on Sunday, Reuters reported. It said the fire broke out in the early hours of Sunday morning in a privately-owned two-storey building that was temporarily housing 35 people in the village of Litochky, 37 km (23 miles) northeast of Kiev. "Emergency services units saved 18 people, five of whom have been hospitalised with burns of varying degrees of severity," it said. The fire was localised at 05:25 a.m. (0225 GMT), it said. --SPA 13:13 LOCAL TIME 10:13 GMT www.spa.gov.sa/w

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