Deadly blaze breaks out at hostel in Latvian capital: Police

At least eight people died and nine others injured in a blaze that broke out in an illegal hostel in Riga, police said.

At least eight people died and nine were injured in a blaze that broke out in an illegal hostel early on Wednesday in the Latvian capital, Riga, police and local authorities said. “Eight people have died and nine were injured during the lethal fire in the hostel,” Latvia’s deputy police chief Andrejs Grishins told reporters in the capital. DNA tests will be used to identify the victims, he added.