Moscow Fire Death Toll Reaches 37

World | November 26, 2003, Wednesday // 00:00

Monday's fire at the hostel of the People's Friendship University in Moscow goes on taking victims even extinguished. An 18-year old male student from Peru died in a hospital, raising the death toll to 37. There are still 167 people being treated at Moscow-area hospitals. The condition of nine of them is critical. Most of the students who died were from China, Bangladesh, Vietnam and African countries, while overall injured came from 23 nations No Bulgarian nationals have been injured, Bulgarian officials said.

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