Windows of burned apartments are seen after a fire in a building in Bronx, New York. Photo: ReutersA 3-year-old boy playing with the burners on a kitchen stove started a fire in a New York City apartment building that killed 12 people, including four children, city officials said on Friday (local time). The toddler had a history of fiddling with the stove in the kitchen of his family's first-floor apartment, his mother told officials investigating the deadliest fire in the city since 1990. New York City is going through a bitter cold snap with temperatures in the low-teens Fahrenheit (minus teens Celsius)and high winds. In 2007, 10 immigrants from Mali, including nine children, died after a space heater caught fire in a Bronx building.

Source: Otago Daily Times December 29, 2017 21:22 UTC