Fire at Taipei flats kills 13

TAIPEI: Fire swept through an apartment block on the outskirts here early yesterday killing 13 people and injuring 70, and investigators said they were checking a report it was caused by a woman who set herself on fire. 

Desperate residents of the seven-storey building jumped off balconies to escape the blaze, or climbed down ropes through thick black smoke as illegal building structures and narrow alleyways hampered firetrucks and rescue efforts.