Twenty hospitalised after Leiden fire

Twenty people have been taken to hospital with breathing difficulties after a fire in a block of flats in Leiden. Fire broke out in a second-floor flat around 4am. Huge quantities of smoke forced the evacuation of the second and third floors, police said.

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