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Sondershausen (dpa / th) - A 70-year-old and a 65-year-old were injured in a fire in the Thuringian Kyffhäuserkreis.
A fire broke out in the cellar of the house in Sondershausen on Friday night, as the police announced on Friday.
The two injured were woken up by a continuous ringing.
According to the police, it is suspected that a technical defect was the reason for the fire in the basement and that a burnt cable triggered the doorbell.
The 70-year-old first tried to put out the fire himself.
He got smoke poisoning.
The man and his 63-year-old wife, who was in shock, were taken to the hospital.
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