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Deadly Bronx fire claims 13th victim
Published January 04, 2018
In this Dec. 28, 2017, file photo, firefighters respond to a deadly building fire in the Bronx borough of New York. (Associated Press)
A 13th person has died from injuries suffered in one of New York City's deadliest fires in decades.
Police say 27-year-old Holt Francis was critically injured in the Dec. 28 Bronx apartment building fire and died at a hospital on Thursday. They say the fire was caused by a 3-year-old boy playing with stove burners.
Francis' wife, their two daughters and a niece also were killed in the fire.
BRONX FIRE'S VICTIMS INCLUDE YOUNG CHILDREN AND ADULTS
Eight adults and five children died in the fire. Among them was 28-year-old Emmanuel Mensah, who rescued a number of people that night before going back into the burning building and dying of smoke inhalation.
Fire Commissioner Daniel Nigro says the fire started on a stove and raced through a door and up five floors.
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