PRAGUE: A restaurant fire in a northwestern city of the Czech Republic killed six people and injured eight in a suspected heating accident, rescue services said on Sunday.
“The fire spread extremely fast after a patio gas heater was probably knocked over,” the local fire service posted on Facebook.
The fire broke out in a wooden beer garden adjacent to the U Kojota (“Coyote”) restaurant at a housing estate in the city of Most, about 70-kms northwest of the capital Prague.
It was reported at 2217 GMT on Saturday and was under control by midnight, the fire service said.
“Despite all efforts... the fire had tragic consequences for six people,” it said.
Eight others were injured, six of them seriously, and all were taken to hospitals with burns.
Five were taken to Prague, two to the Most hospital and one to the regional capital of Usti nad Labem, regional emergency service director Petr Bures told the public broadcaster Czech TV.
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