A fire at a nursing home in Chile has killed 16 people, authorities said Saturday.
The blaze began on Friday night at the nursing home in the Araucania region, south of the capital Santiago, and was extinguished in the early hours of Saturday.
"We express our sorrow and dismay at the deaths of 16 elderly people in this tragedy," authorities in the municipality of Pitrufquen said.
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