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Russian shopping mall fire kills 64; no alarms reported activated

- From staff and wire reports

Witnesses say fire alarms were silent and staff were nowhere to be seen when a fire at a shopping mall packed with children and their parents on the first weekend of the school recess killed 64 people in Siberia. The fire at the Winter Cherry mall in Kemerovo, about 1,900 miles east of Moscow, was extinguish­ed by Monday morning.

Sixty-four deaths were confirmed. Six bodies had not yet been recovered.

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