Fifteen migrant workers from former Soviet republics working at a Moscow market were killed Tuesday night when a fire raged through a two-storey warehouse where they were camping out, local emergencies services said.
The man who has claimed responsibility for a blaze at a Brussels mosque that left an imam dead said on Tuesday that he set the fire seeking to "scare" Shiites, who he blames for the violence and unrest in Syria.
A fire at a Honduran prison Tuesday night killed more than 350 inmates, authorities told a news conference on Wednesday. The overcrowded prison in Comayagua, 140 kilometres north of the capital Tegucigalpa, held some 800 inmates at the time.
Firemen in Marseille on Friday brought under control a fire that had broken out at the city's iconic ‘Cité Radieuse’ housing complex. The full extent of the damage is still not yet known.
A fire burned through a drug rehabilitation centre in an impoverished neighbourhood of Peru's capital Lima on Saturday, killing at least 26 people. The cause of the fire is under investigation.
A Russian nuclear submarine caught fire Friday, injuring nine people fighting the flames. Russia said the fire was brought under control by submerging the vessel. The nuclear reactors had been shut down and posed no danger, officials reported.
A warehouse containing gunpowder exploded in Rangoon (also known as Yangon), Burma on Wednesday, killing at least 17 and injuring 80, officials have reported. Three firemen were among the dead.
A fire swept through a hospital in the eastern Indian city of Kolkata early Friday morning, killing at least 73 people and forcing emergency workers to smash their way into the windows of higher floors in order to evacuate patients and staff.
At least 14 eunuchs were killed Sunday when a fire swept through a venue in New Delhi where some 5,000 members of the marginalised community had gathered for a national convention.
At least 100 people were burned to death and scores of others were hospitalised on Monday after a discarded cigarette butt set fire to a petrol leak in a densely populated slum in Kenya's capital Nairobi.
