Four workers killed in fire

JAKARTA: Four people, exhausted after a day battling flood waters, were burned alive after fire tore through the Barokah foodstall in Central Jakarta, early Saturday.

Seven fire trucks were sent to extinguish the fire on Jl. Kramat Pulo, Senen, despite the heavy rains and floods just after midnight.

The four casualties, included three women, Imah (35), Yanah (18) and Nurhayati (21), and a male worker Kardan (17). All four had been sleeping after a long day battling the floods.

One of the survivors, Edi, said that he was sleeping with other employees on the second story of the foodstall. Though he managed to escape the dead had become trapped and had not managed to flee the fire which destroyed the building during a three-and- a-half hour blaze. -- JP