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Reports: At least 10 killed in Siberian warehouse fire

January 4, 2018
By The Associated Press

Jan. 4, 2018 – Russian news reports say at least 10 people have been killed in a warehouse fire in a Siberian village and that the dead are believed to be workers from China and Kyrgyzstan.

The fire broke out Thursday morning at a shoe manufacturing company in Chernoretsky village about 2,800 kilometres east of Moscow.

A statement from the Emergencies Ministry says there were fatalities but did not give details.

But news reports are citing local sources as saying at least 10 bodies have been found.

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