Pashinyan's meeting causes us concern - Zakharova
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At least 38 people have died and scores more have been injured in a fire that tore through a prison in Burundi.
Axar.az reports that Vice-President Prosper Bazombanza told reporters the blaze hit an overcrowded facility in the capital Gitega, with at least 69 people seriously injured.
Images circulating online show a building engulfed in flames and piles of bodies said to be of inmates in the jail.
"It is really catastrophic," one inmate told the BBC over the phone.
"I'd say almost 90% of sleeping halls are burnt."
A journalist outside the prison told the BBC that nurses from Gitega hospital have entered the prison to help the victims, saying they are taking out the dead and wounded.
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2021.12.07 / 17:57
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Axar.az
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