- A fire during a housewarming party in central Madagascar killed 38 people including 16 children as the blaze ripped through a thatched roof, police said on Monday.
- The victims were trapped inside the house in Ambalavato village of Ikalamavony district in the rural centre of the Indian Ocean island on Saturday night.
- The party-goers, including several relatives of the house owner, were celebrating the renovation of the house.The blaze is believed to have started from embers of a fire that had been used earlier to cook food for the guests.
(With PTI inputs.)
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