INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
At least 35 people were killed in southeastern Benin on Saturday after a fire broke out at a shop where witnesses said gasoline was being
unloaded, a justice ministry representative said.The fire broke out at 0930 local time in Seme-Podji municipality, near the border with
Nigeria, Reuters reported.&The fire burned down the store and according to an initial assessment resulted in 35 deaths including one child,&
said Prosecutor Abdoubaki Adam-Bongle in a ministry statement, adding that an investigation had been opened to determine the
cause.&According to the witnesses interviewed, the fire was probably started during the unloading of bags of gasoline.&More than a dozen
others were seriously injured and are being treated in hospital, he said.A video shared widely on social media, purportedly of the fire,
shows a tower of black smoke and flames spewing into the air above what appears to be a market place as shocked people watch from a safe
distance.Reuters was not immediately able to verify the video.The post Fire in shop kills 35 people in southeastern Benin first appeared on
