Fire Destroys Nearly Half of Village in Russia’s Dagestan

03:40 25/05/2012 MOSCOW, May 25 (RIA Novosti)

A fire raged through a village in the Russian North Caucasus republic of Dagestan destroying nearly half of the houses and injuring six people

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