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SUICIDE KILLS
FIVE OTHERS
PARIS, Monday.
A lonely old woman's suicide
brought death to five other persons
yesterday when a series of
explosions in her gas filled kitchen
sent three storeys of an
apartment house tumbling in
flames.
The first victims were another
woman and a little girl who
rang the old woman s door bell,
setting off an electric spark
which exploded gas and engulfed
the building in flames.
Two fiiCflnen were killed by a
second blast a few seconds after
they forced their way into the
building.
The force of the explosions
shattered windows for hundreds
OX" yards- /Tlîdtïsands of Sunday
morning churchgoers gathered
on the river banks to watch the
blaze.
Another body was recovered
later and five persons were injured.
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