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Urgent: Overnight fire kills nine in Oakland

Xinhua, December 4, 2016 Adjust font size:

An overnight fire killed at least nine people while another 13 people were unaccounted for in Oakland, east of San Francisco, as of Saturday morning.

The blaze began at about 11:30 p.m. on Friday during a party at a warehouse in the San Francisco Bay Area city, according to the local media. Endit