TBILISI: A fire in a hotel in Georgia’s Black Sea resort city of Batumi killed 11 people, an official said on Saturday. “Unfortunately, 11 people were killed and 19 were injured in a fire,” Giorgi Gakharia, Georgia’s interior minister, told reporters. Batumi is about 360 km from Tbilisi, Georgia’s capital. The hotel has been scheduled to be a venue for the Miss Georgia beauty contest on Sunday. According to officials, no participants of the contest, who were staying at the hotel, were injured in the blaze.

Source: New Strait Times November 25, 2017 00:22 UTC