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A fire occurred at a 16 storey high rise building used as dwellings that killed, officially, 15 persons and injured at least 63 with 5 of those that died being children (Wikipedia, 2015).
The fire involved combustible external cladding with most victims being killed by toxic smoke.
The disaster led to severe outrage among the population and provoked a lot of discussions around the material used in the renovation of the facade of more than 200 apartment blocks in Baku built in the Soviet period. Consequently, the Mayoralty started the process of removing the facade of the buildings where the material causing the fire was used.
A similar fire had erupted in Baku a few days earlier, on 10 April 2015, but there were no injuries and casualties. The reason for both of the fires is indicated as low quality inflammable facade material used in the renovation. (Wikipedia, 2015).
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Reuters, from The Mirror 2015.
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APA (2016).
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Mackay, D. (2015). Sixteen dead and scores injured as Azerbaijan tower block engulfed in flames. [online]. Available at http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/sixteen-dead-scores-injured-azerbaijan-5725710 [Accessed 4th March 2017]. The Mirror.
Wikipedia. (2015). 2015 Baku residence building fire. [online]. Available at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2015_Baku_residence_building_fire [Accessed 4th March 2017].
APA. (2016). Baku court resumes trial of defendants in case over deadly high-rise fire. [online]. Available at http://en.apa.az/azerbaijani-news/accidents-incidents-news/baku-court-resumes-trial-of-defendants-in-case-over-deadly-high-rise-fire.html [Accessed 4th March 2017].
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Storyful News. (2015) Deadly fire in Azerbaijan high-rise building. [online]. Available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pXg7QGiN9KM [Accessed on 4th March 2017]. YouTube.
Teymur. I. S. (2015). 2-nd fire of polyurethane façade at Baku, Azerbai. [online]. Available at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y7SCfXFkTZE [Accessed 17th December 2017]. Youtube.