Summary An early-morning fire Sunday at an apartment building in Germany left seven people dead.
BERLIN (AP):-According to police, an early-morning fire Sunday at an apartment building in southwestern Germany left seven people dead, six of them children.
Authorities were alerted to the blaze in Backnang, a town near Stuttgart, at 4.30 a.m. Police said they believe the fire broke out in a second-floor apartment, and said in a statement that their investigation is focusing on a heater in the apartment.
There was no immediate information on the identity of the victims. Three more people were injured and taken to hospitals.
The building is part of a former leather factory that was converted into a row of three-story apartment blocks.
Police spokesman Klaus Hinderer told news agency dpa that 13 people are registered as living in the two apartments worst affected by the fire, though it wasn t clear how many were there when the fire broke out.
Police said a German-Turkish cultural association has an office on the building s ground floor, but said there was no indication that the fire might have been set deliberately.
