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Dormitory Fire Kills 12 in Turkey

A fire at a school in southern Turkey has killed 12, including 11 teenage girls, and injured 22 others. The fire broke out in a girls dormitory late Tuesday in the southern province of Adana. The cause of the fire was unknown, and it was not clear how many of the injured were children. Adana Governor Mahmut Demirtas told the state-run Anadolu agency some of the injured students were affected by the smoke and some of them had been hurt trying to escape from the burning...

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