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Taipei: A local couple has been charged with negligence manslaughter and public endangerment for their role in a building fire in southern Taiwan that left 46 people dead, state-run media reported on Friday.
The fire, which broke out in a 13-storey, 40-year-old building in Kaohsiung City on Thursday, killed at least 46 people and left another 41 injured. Police said that shortly before the fire a man and a woman were drinking in a room on the building’s ground floor and got into an argument.
An incinerated incense burner was recovered from the scene, the Central News Agency (CNA) reported.  The Kaohsiung District Prosecutors Office asked a court late on Friday to charge both suspects with negligence manslaughter and public endangerment.
The man was released on bail of $2,143, while the woman remains in pre-trial detention. During the course of their initial investigations, prosecutors learned that the woman had been sentenced to seven months jail time a decade ago for instigating youngsters to throw petrol bombs and for using arson to solve debt disputes, CNA reported. (dpa)
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