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Siberia forest fires on the rise

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Sep 9, 2010 14:04 Moscow Time
Forest fires. Photo: RIA Novosti
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A new wave of forest fires has hit Siberia, with a 40-fold increase in fire occurrence rates, the Emergency Situations Ministry says.

A state of emergency has been announced in the Altai region, where a whole village and several houses nearby were burnt down. In three other villages fires were contained.

A new wave of forest fires has come from to Siberia from Kazakhstan, where at least six people were killed in the disaster.    

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