
Smoke rises from the rubble of the apartment building that caught on fire. Source: Clare Huddleston/WBRC
Smoke rises from the rubble of the apartment building that caught on fire. Source: Clare Huddleston/WBRC
Victim: A victim is taken to a LifeFlight helicopter in the aftermath of a shooting on Wednesday, Nov. 20, 2013, in Houston
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PITTSBURGH —SOURCE
Cops say Pedro Vargas, 43, set a combustible liquid on fire to start the blaze
A Florida madman went on a rampage in his apartment complex, killing six innocents, shooting it out with police and holding two people hostage for three hours before cops shot him dead.
Pedro Vargas, 43, began his eight hours of terror early Friday evening by torching the fourth-floor apartment he shared with his mother in the building in Hialeah, just a few miles north of Miami.
Building managers Italo Pisciotti, 79, and his wife, Camira Pisciotti, 69, noticed smoke and ran to Vargas’ residence.
Neighbor Nelson Flores said he witnessed an argument as Pisciotti wanted to call the police — but Vargas insisted he hold off, since he had something to hide.
Footage uploaded to YouTube shows the street where the incident happened
Surveillance footage aired by a local TV station showed a bag containing the newborn plummeting to the road outside the building in the north-eastern city of Harbin. After hitting the ground, it was run over by a car.
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Firefighters free a newborn from a pipe after the baby by was flushed down toilet in Jinhua, Zhejiang province.
Firemen are at work near the collapsed section of an apartment building on April 28, 2013 in Reims, eastern France, after a suspected gas explosion killed at least two people and injured nine others. —Photo AFP
The collapse, which left several apartments dangling in open air, may have been caused by a gas explosion and investigations were continuing, regional official Michel Bernard told BFM-TV.
The casualty toll was provisional and could rise, he said.
Around 10 of the 40 apartments in the 1960s-era building were affected by the 11.15 a.m. (0915 GMT) collapse.
“There is a lot of rubble to clear,” he said.
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