Fire kills child
A two-year-old Lebanese child was killed when fire swept through a hostel for asylum-seekers in the northern German town of Emstek, Reuter reports from Cloppenburg. Four other Lebanese children managed to flee the blaze, which broke out while their parents were out. Police could not say whether it was caused by neo-Nazi gangs.
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