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At least nine people were killed Saturday after a train coach parked in southern India caught fire when a passenger tried to make tea, officials said. The coach, which had been detached from a train, was stationed at the Madurai railway yard in the southern state of Tamil Nadu when the fire broke out before dawn. Local media reports said the passengers had illegally smuggled aboard a gas cylinder which exploded when they tried to use it. IMAGES
Twenty-seven people were feared dead after a blaze swept through a commercial building housing a mental health clinic in the Japanese city of Osaka on Friday. IMAGES
An express train travelling at around 120 kilometres per hour smashed into a truck at a crossing south of Tokyo, sparking a blaze and killing one person with around 30 others injured. IMAGES
A suspected arson attack at an animation production company in Japan has left 33 people dead and dozens more injured, after a man reportedly doused the building with flammable liquid and shouted "drop dead." IMAGES
At least eight people were killed after a large blaze broke out in a private apartment building in the French capital on Wednesday morning, in one of the city’s deadliest fires within the last decade.