Many Immigrants Among 20 Fire Victims
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From Times Wire Reports
Firefighters extinguished a blaze in an overcrowded budget hotel in Paris, and the death toll rose to 20, half of them children.
Fifty-three people were injured, 11 seriously.
Many were African immigrants and other poor people whom authorities had placed temporarily at the six-story Paris Opera hotel. Some jumped from windows.
Ninety people were registered in the 32-room hotel. It had only one exit.
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