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A blaze triggered by a suspected short circuit in a building near the iconic Charminar here on Sunday left 17 people dead, with a majority of them being children.
The fire broke out at a building in Gulzar House here, police said.
"All 17 who were shifted to hospitals were brought dead," a senior police official told PTI.
A lone, narrow staircase was the only escape route for the inmates of the building, but they could not rush out.
The building housed jewellery shops on the ground floor and people were residing in a flat above, police said adding smoke spread and people suffocated.
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