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Tajikistan: Fire at the Medical University

Thursday, December 27th, 2007 @ 09:56 UTC

by Adil Nurmakov

Countries:: Tajikistan
Topics:: Disaster

Vadim reports that — due a metal fence — firefighters could not put out the fire that has ruined the major medical university in Tajikistan.

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