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Flames billow out of the Lahore Development Authority offices
09/05/2013 - Report: Pakistan elections 2013

At least five dead in giant Lahore blaze

At least five people are reported dead in a fire in a local government building in the Pakistani city of Lahore. Rescue services struggled with the blaze for several hours.

Bangladesh death-trap garment factories
21/02/2013 - International report

Bangladesh death-trap garment factories

Almost 130 people have been killed in fires at Bangladeshi garment factories in the past three months alone. Around 700 workers have been burnt to death since 2005.

02/02/2013 - France

Marseille-Bordeaux train catches fire, no injuries

A train running between the French cities of Marseille and Bordeaux caught fire on Saturday morning, causing delays of two to three hours but no injuries.

11/01/2013

African press review 11 January 2013

Privileges for Kenya's MPs and in South Africa, negotiations to try to end farmworkers strikes are covered in today's African papers.

31/12/2012 - France

Valls to come clean on France's New Year's Eve car blazes

Interior Minister Manuel Valls said on Monday that he’ll release figures detailing the number of cars burned during the night of 31st December – 1st January when, every year, around a ...

A fire-fighting plane releases water over a forest fire
27/08/2012 - France

French police question boy over Avignon forest fire

Several hundred firefighters battled a massive forest fire on Monday in southern France as police questioned a 15-year-old boy suspected of starting the blaze.

19/08/2012 - France

French firefighters prevent new wild fire after microlight crash

Firefighters managed to prevent new forest fires in south-west France when a microlight crashed, killing two people, on Sunday morning.

23/07/2012 - France - Spain

Three dead, key road reopens as firefighters battle wildfire on Spanish side of border with France

French authorities say the forest fires fanned by strong winds in Spain's Catalonia region are now under control on the French side of the border and a key highway between Perpignan and Barcelona, ...

26/05/2012 - France

Three Dutch France residents injured in hot-air balloon accident

A Dutch man was flown to hospital in Bordeaux after being very seriously injured when a trip in a hot-air balloon went tragically wrong on Friday.

10/02/2012 - France

Fire damages Le Corbusier's La Cite Radieuse in Marseille

Firefighters have extinguished a blaze that raged overnight at one of France’s architectural landmarks, La Cite Radieuse, an apartment block built by Le Corbusier.

 

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