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HOLOCAUST AT WEDDING YUGOSLAV VILLAGE HORROR United *>ress Assn.—Elec. Tel. Copyright LONDON, Feb. 11 The Belgrade correspondent of the Daily Mail reports that the bride, bridegroom and 33 guests were incinerated at a wedding feast in the Yugoslav village of Sretnitza. Two hundred guests were drinking the bride's health when flames shot through tthe floor, which collapsed, hurling everybody on to blazing bales of hay and straw on the floor below. It is reported that the fire was started by a disappointed suitor, for whom the police are searching.
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Waikato Times, Volume 122, Issue 20422, 12 February 1938, Page 7
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