200 feared dead in shop fire
NZPA Bucharest (Rumania) Fire swept through one of Bucharest's biggest department stores., the Victoria, early yesterday and unconfirmed reports said as many as 200 people were feared dead or injured. Some jumped from third-storey windows, witnesses said.
The fire probably was caused by welding work on the store’s second and third floors and quickly spread to the upper floors of the Victoria’s five
storeys, witnesses said. Fire Department headquarters rushed all available engines to the building on one of the city’s busiest intersections, across from the Rumanian Bank for Foreign Trade. The fire started about 9.20 a.m. and was extinguished by noon, fire officials said. Helicopters were sent out in hopes of rescuing people from the roof of the store, in a congested quarter of Bucharest’s old town, witnesses said.
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