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113 dead,20,000 homeless in fire,Burma radio says
The Associated Press
RANGOON, Burma — A blaze ignited in a kitchen Sunday afternoon and swept through more than 2,000 buildings in a northern Nurnbese city, killing 113 people and leaving 20,000 homeless, government radio reported yesterday.
In a separate development, insurgents attacked a famous hilltop pagoda and killed five pilgrims and a government soldier, the state radio said yesterday.
The radio said that the fire burned two primary schools as it engulfed 2,096 buildings within two hours in Lashio, a city of 200,000 in the northern Shan states.
Efforts to communicate by telephone or telex with the Associated Press office in Burma early today to obtain more details were unsuccessful. It is often difficult to get phone or telex connections to the country.
The report said the fire began in the kitchen of a Chinese resident, Chao Wai Lin.
In addition to the dead, 64 people suffered serious burns, the radio said. The casualty toll was the largest ever reported in a fire in Burma.
the largest ever reported in the world. More than 3,000 families lost their homes and damages were estimated at about $10 million, the radio said.
Lashio, 450 miles northeast of Rangoon, is the largest city and business center in the northern Shan states and the seat of the northeast military command.
command.
In the pagoda attack, the radio said that insurgents in the Karen National Union attacked the Kyaiktiyo Pagoda in Mon state Monday with mortars and then looted pagoda donation boxes and shops, robbed pilgrims and set fire to 13 shops and a fire station. Sixteen pilgrims and eight government soldiers were wounded before the rebels were driven off in a four-hour firefire.
U.S. officials say ouster of Noriega is expected soon
WASHINGTON — Senior administration officials think that Panamanian Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega will be forced from office soon.
The Associated Press
The officials said Norigea's efforts to overcome the crisis probably were not helped by his conditional offer Monday night to resign before the May 1989 presidential elections.
State Department spokesman Charles Redman said that Panamanians regarded the offer as a "plov to buy time."
At the White House, spokesman Marlin Finitz water said any proposal that called for Noriega's resignation as defense chief but did not include his actual departure from Panama was "like getting the fox out of the hen house, then giving him quarters next door."
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