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8 Tuesday, November 25, 2003 Fire at Moscow dormitory for foreign students kills 1 By Vladimir Isachenkov THE ASSOCIATED PRESS MOSCOW — A pre-dawh fire swept though a rundown Russian dormitory for quarantined for eign students Monday, trapping many behind per manently locked exits and causing some to leap from the five-story building. Thirty-six students died and nearly 200 were injured, some from frostbite after fleeing half naked into the bitter cold. The students — from Asia, Africa and Latin America — had just arrived in Moscow and were being held in the dorm await ing medical checks before starting classes. “It was like a horrible nightmare,” Abdallah Bong, a student from Chad. “We saw them crying for help and jumping out of the windows, and we could do nothing to save them.” Bong and other witnesses said dozens of fire engines were slow to reach the blaze, jammed into a narrow access road blocked by parked cars. “Students had to do it all themselves, holding mattresses for those who were jumping out,” said Nafafe Tengna, a journalism student from Guinea. The fire, believed to have been caused by an electrical malfunction, engulfed the building at People’s Friendship University. It burned for more than three hours, though Moscow fire safety department spokesman Yevgeny Bobylyov insist ed that firefighters arrived on time and did their job well. Flames gutted most of the dorm above the ground floor. Smoke poured from windows as a wet snow fell in the early morning darkness. The fire left the building’s concrete walls streaked with black soot, and nearby trees were caked with ice that had formed from water used to extinguish the blaze. Once a showpiece of Soviet patronage of the Third World, receiving generous state subsidies, the university declined with the 1991 fall of com munism. Still, it continued to draw students from impoverished nations with its low tuition, such as medical school costs of $1,2(X) a year. Students said the dead and injured included citi zens of China, Bangladesh. Vietnam, Ecuador, Ethiopia, Tahiti, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Angola, Ivory Coast, Morocco, Kazakhstan, the Dominican Republic, Lebanon, Peru and Malaysia. 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