Blaze guts historic teak wood Yangon hotel

A Japanese man was killed when a fire tore through a luxury teak wood hotel in Myanmar's largest city Yangon on Thursday, destroying an iconic resort popular with foreign visitors. Hundreds of firefighters tried to quell the blaze, which broke out at around 3am local time (2030 GMT), but were unable to stop the flames from consuming the lakeside Kandawgyi Palace Hotel.
The oldest parts of the Kandawgyi hotel date to the 1930s when British army officers used the site as rowing club.