Fire Kills 38, Including 16 Children, in Madagascar: Police

The fire broke out on Saturday night during a housewarming party in central Madagascar.

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• A fire during a housewarming party in central Madagascar killed 38 people including 16 children as the blaze ripped through a thatched roof, police said on Monday.
  
• The victims were trapped inside the house in Ambalavato village of Ikalamavony district in the rural centre of the Indian Ocean island on Saturday night.
  
• The party-goers, including several relatives of the house owner, were celebrating the renovation of the house.The blaze is believed to have started from embers of a fire that had been used earlier to cook food for the guests.
  

(With PTI inputs.)