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Berlin (dpa / bb) - A 72-year-old was seriously injured in an apartment fire in Berlin.
Neighbors had alerted the fire brigade at midnight after a smoke alarm went off and they saw the glow of the fire coming from the apartment in Berlin-Fennpfuhl, the police announced on Wednesday.
The emergency services extinguished the furniture that was on fire and then sealed the apartment on Karl-Lade-Strasse.
It is no longer habitable.
The man had come to a hospital with burns and suspected smoke poisoning.
Other residents of the apartment building were not injured.
The State Criminal Police Office is now investigating negligent arson.
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