A fire in a Berlin apartment bloc killed eight people, including five children, and officials said they suspected arson was to blame for one of the deadliest blazes in the German capital in 60 years.
The fire broke out on Monday night in the stairwell of a five-storey building in the German capital's central Moabit district that is home to many immigrant families.
"Everything points to arson," Berlin's interior minister, Ehrhart Koerting, told reporters on Tuesday.
Fire brigade officials said it looked like the fire started in prams parked in the building's entrance hall. The service said it was the second highest death toll in a fire in Berlin since World War Two.
Four of the victims were believed to have been Polish, the police said. Koerting said the building was also home to people of Arabic origin and some from the Balkans.
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