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Last Updated: Friday, 21 April 2006, 08:35 GMT 09:35 UK
Deadly fire at Moscow University
Firefighters at Moscow University
The building is one of Moscow's most famous landmarks
Two students have been killed and at least four people injured in a fire at Moscow State University.

The fire broke out in a dormitory on the 12th floor of the university's 26-floor central building.

Yevgeny Serebrennikov, deputy head of the Emergency Situations Ministry, said that 1,500 people were evacuated.

It is not clear how the fire started in the Stalin-era building, which is one of the Russian capital's most conspicuous landmarks.





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