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Fire at New Zealand hostel kills at least 6 people, prime minister says
By Associated Press
May 16, 2023 9:46 am

WELLINGTON, New Zealand: A fire ripped through a hostel in New Zealand's capital overnight, killing at least six people and forcing others to flee the four-story building in their pajamas in what a fire chief on Tuesday called his 'worst nightmare.'

Fifty-two people in the Loafers Lodge hostel in Wellington had been accounted for, but firefighters were still looking for others, said Wellington Fire and Emergency District Manager Nick Pyatt. He said they were called to the hostel at about 12:30 a.m.

Firetrucks stage outside a fire at a hostel in central Wellington, New Zealand, Tuesday, May 16, 2023. Several people were killed after a fire broke out overnight at the four-story building. Nick James/NZ Herald/ AP

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