— Three people died and four were injured Tuesday in a fire which gutted a shoe factory on the fourth floor of a factory and workshop building in the center of Haifa. Survivors said a “massive blaze” broke out without warning and the dead workers were trapped under the ceiling which had collapsed. Firemen said that about 300 people had been in the building on Herzl Street at the time. They were evacuated safely while firemen confined the blaze to the fourth floor.
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