Thirty-two die in university blaze

A fire tore through a Moscow university dormitory early today, killing at least 32 foreign students and injuring 78 others.

The fire raged through part of a five-storey dormitory belonging to the Patrice Lumumba Friendship of Peoples University, where many foreigners studied, emergency situations ministry spokesman Viktor Beltsov said. He did not know the nationalities of the victims.