Nov. 5 (UPI) -- At least 11 people were killed and 30 injured in a blaze at a high-rise retirement home in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
Auhtorities said the fire broke out on Tuesday evening at about 8.45 p.m. local time on the seventh floor of the facility in Tuzla, the country's fourth largest city 70 miles northeast of the capital, Sarajevo.
Police said firefighters, police officers, medics, residents and staff at the home were among 20 people taken to the hospital.
Several people were receiving treatment for carbon monoxide poisoning, with three in intensive care, said a spokesman for Tuzla University clinical center.
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