11 Children Among Dead in Sugar Cane Field Fire
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From Times Wire Reports
Fifteen people were killed, including 11 children, when Hondurans hunting rabbits that were fleeing a burning sugar cane field were trapped by the blaze themselves, officials said.
Workers set the fire Monday night as part of the harvest on 40 acres of the Choluteca sugar company in Santa Cruz, south of the capital, Tegucigalpa, Security Ministry spokesman Leonel Sauceda said.
Firefighters said a change in the wind had confused the victims.
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