Word: blaze
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...INQUIRY CONCLUDED. Into the 2002 TRAIN FIRE in Gujarat, India that killed 59 Hindu pilgrims and triggered the retaliatory slaughter of 2,000 Muslims in three days of mob violence; by an investigative panel in New Delhi. Retired Judge Umesh Chandra Banerjee's committee said the blaze, blamed on Muslim assailants by Hindu nationalist officials, was probably caused by someone cooking or smoking inside the coaches. Although forensic evidence seems to support the panel's conclusions, many observers have called the findings politically motivated...
...Racing across scrub and farmland, this blaze was no ordinary grass fire. It was one of the fastest-moving ever seen, says South Australian Country Fire Service ceo Euan Ferguson: most of its destructive work was done in just six hours. At the township of North Shields, where teacher Helen Castle was killed, residents jumped into the sea to escape the flames. "We had very experienced fire fighters out there, and the rate of spread of this fire was beyond their comprehension." As it gathered speed, hundreds of fire-fighters and locals risked their lives trying to stop...
...their sheep are dead, and the local township of Wanilla "looks like a scene from the Second World War," says Leith. Still, they know how lucky they are. Many friends have lost homes. Close friend Neil Richardson and another resident, Trent Murnane, died fighting the blaze. The men didn't live in the fire-affected area but, like many others, had volunteered to help. Another friend of the Holmans has lost her two grandchildren, three-year-old Star Borlase and two-year-old Jack, who died with their other grandmother, Judy Griffith, in a car near the Borlase farm...
...Exit Argentinean police arrested the owner of a nightclub in downtown Buenos Aires after a blaze killed at least 175 and injured more than 700. Interior Minister Aníbal Fernández said that four of the disco's six doors had been wired shut, snaring the mostly young clubgoers in what he called "a mortal trap." Fernandez also warned that the death toll was likely to rise. Thousands of people, many in their teens and 20s, had packed into the Cromagnon Republic disco to celebrate the end of the school year. The Argentinean rock band Los Callejeros...
...just simply ran over them or pushed them down." With the victims reportedly including some babies and toddlers - part of the club was used as a creche - anxious parents searching for their children crowded the city's hospitals and morgues. The fire was South America's worst since a blaze in a Paraguayan shopping mall in August killed more than 400 - a tragedy also blamed on blocked exits. Immigrant Amnesty SPAIN The government approved new regulations on immigration, giving amnesty to any of the country's estimated 800,000 illegal immigrants who can prove at least six months' employment...