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Philadelphia fire: Eight children among 12 dead in apartment blaze
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WASHINGTON, 06 January 2022, (TON): Twelve people have been killed and several more have been injured after a fire broke out in an apartment building in the US city of Philadelphia.
An official from the Philadelphia Fire Department told reporters “eight children are among the dead.”
The blaze began at around 06:00 local time (11:00 GMT) in a public housing block in the north of the city.
Deputy Fire Commissioner Craig Murphy told reporters it was one of the worst fires he had ever seen.
He said "we plan on making sure that this tremendous loss of life did not happen in vain.”
He added that eight other residents had managed to escape the building.
It is believed there were 26 people in the three-storey block at the time of the fire.
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