One dead in Bulgarian shanty town fire (3)

(supersedes)(ANSA) - Foggia, December 9 - A 20-year-old man was burned to death last night in a fire that swept through a shanty town housing Bulgarian day laborers 20km from the Puglia city of Foggia. Eyewitnesses told police and reporters that two fellow Bulgarians began arguing while intoxicated by alcohol when one of the two set fire to his own shanty, for unknown reasons. The fire spread to a nearby hut, where the victim succumbed to the flames in his sleep. The blaze destroyed a total of 20 makeshift shelters patched together with cardboard, metal and plastic sheeting. The shanty town houses approximately 300 Bulgarians, 100 of them children. The adults pick fruits and vegetables on area farms.
    It was the second fire in shanty towns near Foggia in a few days, after another one in the sp-called Great Ghetto that destroyed some 100 huts housing African farm workers, leaving one man bruised and another overcome by fumes. A stove malfunction was behind that blaze.