Prague hotel fire death toll rises to four

Prague hotel fire death toll rises to four
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Summary Dutch, Turkish and French tourists were among the nine people wounded.

PRAGUE (AFP) - Two more people have died from their injuries sustained in a hotel fire in central Prague, a Czech hospital official said Sunday, raising the death toll to four.

"Two women have died at our hospital on Sunday," Michal Schneider, spokesman for the General University Hospital in Prague, told AFP.

Two people had died during the blaze, which broke out at the four-star Eurostars David hotel in the Czech capital on Saturday evening.

Czech media said they were a 21-year-old German man and a 20-year-old South Korean woman.

Five people, including the two women who died Sunday, suffered very serious injuries, and another four people were treated by Prague ambulance, its spokeswoman Jana Postova told AFP.

Dutch, Turkish and French tourists were among the nine people wounded.

Both Schneider and Postova declined to comment on the identity of the deceased women.

Martin Kavka, spokesman for the Prague fire brigade, told AFP the blaze was reported after 1700 GMT on Saturday and that firefighters had brought it under control two hours later.

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