Police were investigating whether a group of welders working in a disco may have set off the fire that destroyed a six-storey building in the Vietnamese capital Ho Chi Minh City and killed at least 61 people, officials said today.

More than 50 people, including at least one foreigner, were killed when a fire raged through a six storey building in Vietnam’s Ho Chi Minh City today.

A fire raged through a building housing offices of foreign companies, shops and a popular disco in Vietnam’s Ho Chi Minh City today, killing at least eight people and injuring more than 100.