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Burundi prison fire kills 38 inmates, injures dozens more

Thirty-eight people died in a huge fire that tore through an overcrowded prison in Burundi on Tuesday, Vice President Prosper Bazombanza said. Another 69 people were seriously injured in the blaze at the facility in the East African country's political capital Gitega, he told reporters.

Reuters WORLD
Published December 07,2021
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At least 38 people were killed and dozens more injured in a fire on Tuesday at the main prison in Burundi's capital, the country's vice president said.