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Blaze guts historic teak wood Yangon hotel
9 years agoA burnt Myanmar trational sculpture is seen after a fire at Kandawgyi Palace hotel in Yangon on October 19, 2017. One person died in a pre-dawn blaze on October 19 that tore through a teakwood hotel in Yangon popular with foreign visitors to Myanmar's main city. / AFP PHOTO / YE AUNG THU
A Japanese man was killed when a fire tore through a luxury teak wood hotel in Myanmar's largest city Yangon on Thursday, destroying an iconic resort popular with foreign visitors.