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At least 27 people killed in fire at amusement park in India
TEHRAN, May 26 (MNA) – At least 27 people, most of them children, have died after a huge fire broke out at an amusement park in western India, police said.
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Fire at children’s hospital kills seven newborns in India
TEHRAN, May 26 (MNA) – At least seven infants have been killed fire in a fire at a children’s hospital in India’s capital, says a fire service officer.
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Fire at entertainment venue kills at least 24 people in India
TEHRAN, May 25 (MNA) – At least 24 people, including many children, died in a fire that broke out on Saturday evening in a family entertainment venue in the western Indian state of Gujarat, a government official said.
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9 dead as bus catches fire in India
TEHRAN, May 19 (MNA) – At least nine people were killed and several injured as a bus caught on fire in Haryana state of India.
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VIDEO: Mystery fire destroyed Israeli base warehouse
TEHRAN, May 14 (MNA) – A fire broke out in a warehouse inside the Tel Hashomer base, north of Tel Aviv, according to Israeli regime media.
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VIDEO: Alpitronic warehouse goes up in flames
TEHRAN, May 08 (MNA) – A major fire broke out on Wednesday morning in a warehouse belonging to the charging station manufacturer Alpitronic in Bolzano, Italy. Alpitronic says no one was in the building, which was closed due to renovation work.
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Derailment of freight train in Arizona causes huge fire
TEHRAN, Apr. 27 (MNA) – A freight train carrying fuel derailed and caught fire Friday near the Arizona-New Mexico state line, forcing the closure of an interstate highway that serves as a key trucking route.
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VIDEO: Three dead in electrical plant fire in Russia
TEHRAN, Apr. 22 (MNA) – Russia’s Emergency Situations Ministry confirmed that two more people had also been injured in the blaze at the Enikmash-V electromechanical plant in Voronezh, with around 500 square meters engulfed in flames.
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Fire reported in Syrian oil pipeline
TEHRAN, Apr. 21 (MNA) – Local media in Syria reported a fire in an oil pipeline in the west of the country on Sunday.
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Fire in east of Tehran kills 6 laborers
TEHRAN, Apr. 18 (MNA) – The spokesman of the Tehran Fire Department in Iran said Thursday that a gas explosion in a construction site in the east of the capital Tehran has six people and wounded 1.
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Explosion at major BAE Systems weapons factory in UK
TEHRAN, Apr. 17 (MNA) – Fire crews were called to the scene of an explosion at a site belonging to BAE Systems, Britain's biggest defense firm.
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Fire breaks out at US ammunition factory
TEHRAN, Apr. 16 (MNA) – The US Army factory in Scranton, Pennsylvania that specializes in artillery ammunition caught fire on Monday afternoon, according to local media reports and eyewitnesses.
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27 killed, 1 injured in Istanbul night club fire: local media
TEHRAN, Apr. 02 (MNA) – The Istanbul Governorship announced Tuesday that 27 people were killed in a fire that broke out in a night club under a 16-story building in Beşiktaş, with one other victim seriously injured.
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Indonesia extinguishes blaze after ammo depot explodes
TEHRAN, Mar. 31 (MNA) – Firefighters have managed to extinguish a blaze that levelled an ammunition warehouse just outside the Indonesian capital after a series of explosions, an officer said Sunday.
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5 dead after moving bus catches fire in north India
TEHRAN, Mar. 11 (MNA) – At least five people died and more than a dozen suffered serious burn injuries when the bus they were traveling in suddenly caught fire after coming in contact with high-voltage power transmission wires in India.
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VIDEO: Fire engulfs factory in Erbil
TEHRAN, Mar. 09 (MNA) – A storage depot containing industrial materials in northern Erbil caught fire early Saturday morning.
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VIDEO: Massive fire reported in Istanbul
TEHRAN, Mar. 06 (MNA) – Turkish media published footage of a massive fire at a technical university in Istanbul on Wednesday .
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Industrial fire, multiple explosions reported in US
TEHRAN, Mar. 05 (MNA) – Police warned people to stay away as an industrial fire with multiple explosions shook a northern Detroit suburb on Monday night.
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Bangladesh building fire kills 45, injures dozens
TEHRAN, Mar. 01 (MNA) – A massive blaze in a six-storey shopping mall in the Bangladeshi capital, Dhaka, has killed at least 45 people and wounded dozens.
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2 killed in Texas wildfires
TEHRAN, Mar. 01 (MNA) – Wildfires, including the largest one in Texas history, which have spread to the neighboring state of Oklahoma, continued scorching the Texas Panhandle, claiming at least two lives as of Thursday.
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Massive blaze threatening Texas Panhandle town
TEHRAN, Feb. 28 (MNA) – A massive blaze that’s raging out of control is threatening Texas Panhandle towns and forcing residents to evacuate.
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Massive fire engulfs market in Erbil (+VIDEO)
TEHRAN, Feb. 27 (MNA) – A massive fire engulfed a market in Erbil of the Iraqi Kurdistan region on Tuesday night.
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Spain apartment block fire death toll rises to at least 10
TEHRAN, Feb. 24 (MNA) – Firefighters and police have so far discovered the bodies of 10 people after a fire ripped through two large residential buildings in Valencia, a government official announced Friday evening.
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At least 15 killed in residential building fire in east China
TEHRAN, Feb. 24 (MNA) – At least 15 people have been killed and 44 injured in a fire at a residential building in eastern China's Nanjing, local authorities said on Saturday.
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Deadly fire engulfs apartment building in Spain’s Valencia
TEHRAN, Feb. 23 (MNA) – At least four people have been killed in a large blaze that ripped through an apartment building in Valencia, the Spanish city’s deputy director of emergencies said late Thursday.
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Fire breaks out at Sweden's amusement park
TEHRAN, Feb. 12 (MNA) – Black smoke rose over Sweden’s second-largest city on Monday after a fire broke out at a water park under construction at one of the country's biggest amusement centers.
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France closes 2 nuclear reactors after fire at Chinon plant
TEHRAN, Feb. 11 (MNA) – Nuclear energy operator EDF has shut down two reactors at Chinon in western France after a fire in a non-nuclear sector of the plant in the early hours of Saturday, the company said.
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At least 10 injured in residential building fire in Moscow
TEHRAN, Feb. 09 (MNA) – A fire that broke out on the roof of a residential building in northern Moscow injured at least 10 people, local media reported on Friday.
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Death toll from Chile wildfires reaches 131
TEHRAN, Feb. 07 (MNA) – The death toll from the forest fires affecting the region of Valparaiso in central Chile has risen to 131, the country's Legal Medical Service (SML) reported on Tuesday.
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Forest fires kill 123 in Chile's worst disaster since 2010
TEHRAN, Feb. 06 (MNA) – Firefighters in central Chile on Monday battled to quell fierce forest fires that have killed 123 people so far and razed entire neighborhoods.