STEELS CREEK, Australia (Reuters) - Australian police charged a man with "arson causing death" on Friday over one of the country's deadly bushfires, which killed 181 people.
The unidentified man was also charged with "intentionally or recklessly" lighting the fire near the town of Churchill in the southern state of Victoria last Saturday, said a police spokesman. Twenty-one people died in the fire.
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