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• Cigarette blamed in death of 10 at Siberian nursing home (Roundup)  

Jump to full article: Monsters and Critics, 2007-06-21
Author: 2007 dpa - Deutsche Presse-Agentur

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An unextinguished cigarette caused a fire that claimed the lives of 10 people at a nursing home near the Russian city of Omsk, emergency officials said Thursday.

'An unextinguished cigarette was the cause of the fire,' Alexander Glazunov, a regional Emergency Situations Ministry official, told the local television station Channel 12, Interfax reported.

The fire killed 10 late Wednesday and left four hospitalized, the latest in a string of tragic fires at Russian nursing homes and other healthcare wards in the last year.

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