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Urgent: 21 killed in mental hospital fire in Russia

Xinhua, December 13, 2015 Adjust font size:

A deadly blaze at a psychiatric hospital in the Russian southwestern Voronezh region killed at least 21 people on Sunday, local media reported, quoting a source in the Russian Emergencies Ministry's regional center.

"Nineteen dead bodies were recovered at the fire scene, two died in a hospital. Two others are missing," the source told RIA Novosti. Endite