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India: Footwear workers die in blaze

14/03/2013

Four employees of an illegal shoe factory, including a 13-year-old child, died of suffocation after a fire broke out in a footwear unit in Mangolpuri, Outer Delhi, according to local reports. An 18-year old was also critically injured in the fire that was thought to have been started by a short circuit in the electricity and exacerbated by the...

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