Fire broke out in a video shop in the western Japanese city of Osaka early this morning, killing 15 men and injuring 10 other people, the local fire department said.
Firefighters received an emergency call at about 3:00 am local time from a clerk at the video shop, which had 32 rooms for private viewing of rented videos, fire control centre official Takashi Ishida said.
“Fifteen people, all men, died. All of them are believed to be customers of the video shop,” he said, adding that it was not immediately clear whether they died of burns or smoke inhalation.
Ten other people — nine men on other floors of the seven-storey building and one woman in an adjacent building — were injured in the blaze, he said, adding three of them suffered serious injuries.
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