Six people were killed in a fire which ripped through an Oslo apartment block today, said Norway's fire brigade, which called it the country's worst blaze in over sixty years.
The cause of the fire, which left sixteen people injured, one seriously, was still unknown, said police. There were 51 people in the building when the fire started in a stairwell and spread to some of the apartments.
"This is the worst fire since before the Second World War," Nils Kristiansen, acting head of the fire department, told NRK radio.
Reuters
