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| At least 20 people have been killed after a fire broke out in a building in Medan, in the north of the Indonesian island of Sumatra, police said. | At least 20 people have been killed after a fire broke out in a building in Medan, in the north of the Indonesian island of Sumatra, police said. |
| The fire engulfed a karaoke bar on the third floor of a commercial building in the city, Indonesia's third largest. | |
| Officials said that they had only just gained access to the smoke-filled rooms where victims were trapped and feared that the death toll could rise further. | |
| The fire, which began in the early evening, burned for at least an hour. | |
| "The death toll may go up as there is still one room we cannot enter yet. The room is still full of smoke, and dark," provincial police chief Badrodin Haiti told AFP news agency. | "The death toll may go up as there is still one room we cannot enter yet. The room is still full of smoke, and dark," provincial police chief Badrodin Haiti told AFP news agency. |
| Two more people were critically injured and were being treated at local hospitals, the Associated Press news agency quoted him as saying. | |
| Local media reports suggested hundreds of people had been in the bar when the fire started. | |
| Officers said they had no idea yet what was behind the blaze. |