A <a class="mw-redirect" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ho_Chi_Minh_City_ITC_fire" id="mwATo" rel="mw:WikiLink" title="Ho Chi Minh City ITC fire">fire destroys a luxurious department store</a> in Ho Chi Minh City, where 1,500 people are shopping. More than 60 people die and over 100 are unaccounted for in the deadliest peacetime disaster in Vietnam.<sup about="#mwt88" class="mw-ref reference" data-mw='{"name":"ref","attrs":{},"body":{"id":"mw-reference-text-cite_note-16"}}' id="cite_ref-16" rel="dc:references" typeof="mw:Extension/ref"><a href="./October_29#cite_note-16" id="mwATs" style="counter-reset: mw-Ref 16;"><span class="mw-reflink-text" id="mwATw">[16]</span></a></sup>
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