In ruins: A police line shielding the burnt out house that doubled as a lighter factory in Binjai, in North Sumatra. — AFP
Jakarta: Two people have been identified as suspects by authorities investigating a deadly fire at an Indonesian lighter factory that killed 30 people including several children, a police chief said.
A man and a woman, named only as the owner and supervisor of the workshop, were arrested in North Sumatra’s capital Medan shortly after the fire ripped through a rented home that operated as a lighter factory in the town of Binjai, west of the capital yesterday.
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