Czech Apartment Fire Kills 11, Including Three Children: iDNES.cz

Czech Apartment Fire Kills 11, Including Three Children: iDNES.cz
An apartment building is seen after a fire broke out in Bohumin, Czech Republic, Aug. 8, 2020. Lukas Kabon/Reuters
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PRAGUE—A fire tore through an apartment building in the northern Czech Republic on Saturday, killing 11 people, including three children and five others who jumped from the upper floors to escape the blaze, local media reported.

The fire in Bohumin, some 380 kilometers from Prague, broke out in the afternoon on the 11th floor of an apartment block and was the country’s deadliest fire in 30 years, local news service iDNES.cz reported.