(ANSA) - ROME, NOV 21 - One person was dead and 13 poisoned
by smoke inhalation after a condominium fire at Mantua Sunday
night, police said Monday.
The fire broke out shortly before midnight in an apartment
block in the Cittadella quarter on the outskirts of the Lombard
city, a block housing many foreign families.
The victim has yet to be identified, police said.
The flames broke out in a flat housing a couple and a small
child.
The 13 poisoned people, including some children, have been taken
to hospital in Mantua and Castiglione delle Stiviere.
Fire fighters are still at work trying to tame the blaze.
(ANSA).