8 Die in South Korea Fire
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SEOUL, South Korea — Eight people were killed and nine injured Thursday in a fire that started in a first-floor laundry and swept through a three-story building in a northern district of Seoul, police said. Six of the dead were 4- and 5-year-old children who were at a nursery on the third floor. All the victims died of smoke inhalation, the police said.
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