KIEV, Ukraine

Death toll in Ukraine’s Odessa fire rose to 16, the National State Emergency Service said on Thursday. 

Last week, a fire broke out on the third floor of the six-story Odessa Economics College in country’s southern port city on the Black Sea.

According to the emergency service, the death toll was 13 on Wednesday.

* Writing by Busra Nur Bilgic

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