Wed, 18 Aug 2004

Three die in Bandung fires

BANDUNG: Two workers died when a fire gutted a furniture factory in Babaka Ciparay district, Bandung, West Java, early on Tuesday.

The victims, Agus, 16, and Budi, 21, from Banyumas regency, Central Java, were asleep inside the factory when the fire began at about 4:30 a.m.

Their bodies were found on a mattress in a small room in the factory.

On Monday, a fire gutted a home in the Taman Holis housing complex in Bandung Kulon district, killing the house's owner, Ko Ucu, 34. --Antara