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Fire hits German home to people of Turkish origin
16 Feb 2008 12:21:01 GMT
 Source: Reuters
BERLIN, Feb 16 (Reuters) - A fire broke out late on Friday in a building in western Germany housing people of Turkish origin, police said, two weeks after nine people were killed in a similar blaze. Noone was killed in Friday's fire. Six children and four adults were briefly held in hospital for observation after inhaling smoke from the fire, which broke out in the cellar of the building in the town of Gelsenkirchen. Police said the cause was not clear.

Thirty two people of Turkish origin were registered as living in the house. Earlier this month, a blaze in an apartment block in the western town of Ludwigshafen killed nine people of Turkish origin and heightened community tension.

The cause of the Ludwigshafen fire is also unknown but speculation has been rife in the local Turkish community and in Turkish media that it was a racially motivated arson attack.

Turkish investigators flew to Germany to help the police investigation into the Ludwigshafen fire and Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan visited the site and called for calm. (Reporting by Paul Carrel; editing by Philippa Fletcher)


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