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| NYC inferno kills eight children | NYC inferno kills eight children |
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| Eight children and an adult have been killed in a fire which devastated a four-storey building in the New York City borough of the Bronx. | |
| Unconscious children were thrown out of windows to people waiting below, witnesses told the New York Times. | Unconscious children were thrown out of windows to people waiting below, witnesses told the New York Times. |
| Neighbours said large plumes of smoke had filled the area after the fire broke out late on Wednesday. | Neighbours said large plumes of smoke had filled the area after the fire broke out late on Wednesday. |
| At least 10 people were injured in what is said to be one of the city's worst fires in recent times. | At least 10 people were injured in what is said to be one of the city's worst fires in recent times. |
| Some of the injuries are said to be serious. | |
| Cause unknown | |
| Neighbour Edward Soto said he had seen a woman throwing a child out the window and then jumping herself. | |
| "When she threw the first kid out, he fell right on me and I fell over. When she jumped, it seemed like she broke her leg as soon as she hit the floor. There was blood everywhere," he was quoted as saying in the New York Post. | |
| A number of families are said to have lived in the brick building in the Highbridge area of the south Bronx. Some of its occupants are believed to be from Mali. | |
| The cause of the fire - which is thought to have begun in the basement or ground floor - is unknown. |