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There have been strong reactions in France following one of the worst fires to hit Paris since the Second World War. 17 people, 14 of them children, were killed when a tenement block housing African immigrants went up in flames overnight. Police said 130 people were living in the cramped, poorly maintained building. Jacky Roland reports from Paris:
     The fire broke out shortly after midnight in an old apartment building packed full of immigrant families. More than 130 people were staying there at the time. Many of them were cut off as flames tore through the wooden staircase. Firefighters struggled for 2 hours to bring the blaze under control and to help people escape. But there was a heavy loss of life. 17 people died, most of them children. This is the second time in the space of a few months that a fire has broken out in a building used to house immigrants from Africa. The Interior Minister Nicolas Sarkozy said overcrowding had contributed to the high death toll.