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14:48, 28-Jun-2018
At least 15 dead, dozens injured in Nairobi market fire
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14:26, 01-Jul-2018
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At least 15 people were killed and more than 70 others have been hospitalized after a fire broke out at a market in the Kenyan capital Nairobi on Thursday, according to a government official.
It was not immediately clear what caused the fire, which broke out at around 2:00 a.m. local time.
Nairobi Regional Coordinator Kangethe Thuku said nine bodies discovered inside a residential building at the open-air market are yet to be retrieved while six have been moved to the mortuary.
"We managed to contain the fire at around 4 a.m. We have not identified the cause of the fire," Thuku told journalists at the scene.
Source(s): Xinhua News Agency