Fire Kills 11 at Batumi Hotel Hosting Miss Georgia Contestants
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A fire in a hotel in Georgia’s Black Sea resort city of Batumi killed 11 people, Reuters reports.
"Unfortunately, 11 people were killed and 19 were injured in a fire," Giorgi Gakharia, Georgia’s interior minister, told reporters.
The fire started late on Friday on one floor of the Leogrand hotel and spread quickly.
The hotel has been scheduled to be a venue for the Miss Georgia beauty contest on Sunday. According to officials, no participants of the contest, who were staying at the hotel, were injured in the blaze.
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