TOKYO (Reuters) - Eleven people were killed in a fire at a low-rent residence in northern Japan that mainly housed elderly people on welfare, police said on Thursday. Five people were rescued.
The cause of Wednesday night's fire in the city of Sapporo, on the island of Hokkaido, was still being investigated and victims were still being identified, police said.
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