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Mon 04 Apr 2003Twenty-two pupils die in Russian school fireTwenty-two Russian schoolchildren, aged from 10 to 16 years old, died todaywhen a fire tore through a remote village school in Siberia.Twelve other people from the secondary school in the vast,sparsely-populated Yakutia region were taken to hospitalsuffering from burns and other injuries.