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Monday, April 11, 2005
Miami University house fire kills three
Three people believed to be students died in a house fire near Miami University in Ohio early Sunday morning.
The home was rented by nine male students and investigators said 13 people were in the house when the fire started. Investigators believe the fire started in the rec room, because the 4:30 a.m. 911 call came from a room close by.
After firefighters worked for 90 minutes to bring the fire under control, a male was found near the front door and two females were found in separate second floor bedrooms.
Witnesses said the smoke and flames of the house fire were intense. The roof partially collapsed and all the windows were broken out.
"Just before we came here, a guy jumped out of a second story window and walked straight into the hospital, head down, a nasty cut on his leg," Alli Davis, 18, told USA Today.
Thousands protest U.S. forces in Iraq
Tens of thousands of Shiite Muslims, loyal to militant cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, flooded to the spot where Saddam Hussein's statue was toppled two years ago and demanded a timetable for when the U.S. military would withdraw from Iraq.
The protest, one of the largest in Baghdad since the U.S. invasion, also called for a speedy trial for Hussein and the release of their leaders imprisoned by U.S. forces.
In the past two days, trucks, busses and cars arrived at the capital, forcing security to close off most of the downtown streets. Many protesters arrived waving Iraqi flags and marching around the spot where Hussein's statue once stood.
