NEW YORK, Dec 29, 2017 (AFP) -A three-year-old boy playing with stove burners accidentally ignited the fire that ripped through a New York apartment building, killing 12 people including four children, the city’s fire department chief said Friday. The blaze broke out Thursday evening in a 25-apartment building near the Bronx Zoo, one of the most popular tourist attractions in the US financial capital. “It started from a young boy, three and a half years old, playing with the burners on the stove. Two of the dead were discovered in a bathtub full of water, where they had apparently sheltered from the blaze, US media reported. A mother and three children were killed when a fire tore through their Brooklyn home on December 18.

Source: New Strait Times December 29, 2017 16:41 UTC