Vegas hotel fire ‘no accident’
NZPA-Reuter Las Vegas Arsonists are believed to have started a fire which forced 200 people to evacuate their rooms and injured three people at the Sahara Casino hotel at the week-end, fire department officials said yesterday. The blaze came only a day after the official reopening in Las Vegas of the M.G.M. Grand Hotel, where 85 people died and more than
700 were injured in a fire eight months ago. The M.G.M. fire was believed to have been caused by an electrical fault. 'An official investigating the Sahara fire said. “There is no way this fire was an accident." The fire, which sent smoke billowing through four floors, broke out in a third floor suite while the occupants were gambling in the casino downstairs, the official said.
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