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8 Indians escape as building catches fire
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Melbourne: Around eight Indian residents of a
flat made a narrow escape as they evacuated it following an
explosion in an internet cafe below due to a "suspicious" fire
in the building.
Residents, who were sharing a flat above the internet
Cafe in Sydney Road, Brunswick, were woken by a loud bang just
before 1.30 am local time, according to 'The Age'.
Metropolitan Fire Brigade acting commander Steve Dorman
said the group were prompted by smoke alarms to escape as the
cafe's front windows blew out and the brick two-storey
building caught fire.
The fire gutted the cafe and and a ground-floor residence
at the rear of the building where the cafe owners' lived.
Dorman said the pair were luckily out at the time of the
fire but returned to find their business and home destroyed.
The upstairs flat escaped damage as about 25 firefighters
spent an hour struggling to bring the fire under control.
None of the upstairs residents were injured.
The damage to the cafe was estimated at about USD
200,000.
Minutes earlier, just before 1.15 am, a fire had spread
quickly through the Nutex Paper warehouse in Nicholson Street
in East Brunswick as paper products fuelled the flames.
Firefighters managed to contain the damage to the rear of
the brick single-storey building.
Bureau Report
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