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Leek röden (dpa) - An infant was killed in a room fire in western Thuringia.

The fire broke out on Sunday evening for reasons unknown to date in a multi-generation house in Lauchröden (Wartburg district), as the police announced.

Rescue workers had tried to reanimate the child - but it still succumbed to its injuries on site.

The other eight residents survived the fire.

Two of them were seriously injured.

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