Amsterdam Fire Kills 11 Illegal Immigrants

Telegraph - Herald (Dubuque) › October 28, 2005

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AMSTERDAM, Netherlands (AP) - A fire raged Thursday through a prison complex near Amsterdam's Schiphol Airport, killing 11 illegal aliens awaiting deportation and raising questions about whether the Dutch government sacrificed safety in a crackdown on immigration.

The nationalities of the dead were not immediately released.

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Amsterdam Fire Kills 11 Illegal Immigrants

The Dutch Council for Refugees, an advocacy group, said it was the prison's third fire since it was built during a rapid expansion of detention facilities in 2002. Nobody was...

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