Nine Killed In Fire At Nursing Home In Bulgaria

By a staff reporter:  Nine elderly people died when fire swept through a nursing home in eastern Bulgaria on Monday, officials said.

The blaze broke out around 6:00 pm (1600 GMT) in an old school building turned into a care home for the elderly in the village of Royak. "Unfortunately, nine people lost their lives out of the 58 who were in the home at the time of the fire,"fire department chief Tihomir Totev told. The other residents were evacuated from the building and some of them required medical care as they had inhaled smoke, the official added.