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Eleven people killed in fire at Japanese seniors welfare facility

In Japan, 11 people have been killed and five rescued in a fire at a facility to support senior people in Sapporo.

Public broadcaster NHK said the 16 elderly people were living in the three-storey wooden facility.

Three of the survivors were being treated in a hospital. Their condition is not life-threatening. Police said they had launched a probe into the cause of the fire.

Source: AIR