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Sixteen people were burnt to death after a fire broke out at a plastic foam warehouse in the Kazakhstan capital. The fire was put out after it engulfed an area of about 8,000 sq metres, an official of the Kazakhstan Emergency Situations Ministry said. Smoke inhalation was responsible for most of the deaths, he said. Twenty-five fire engines were deployed to put out the fire. The cause of the fire was not immediately known. Deadly fires with large numbers of victims occur regularly in the former Soviet Union due to poor fire safety regulations.
