Fire engulfs Cote d'Ivoire treasury

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Source: Al Jazeera

Flames rip through country's finance ministry building amid political standoff in country.

Several floors of Cote d'Ivoire's finance ministry building were gutted and untold numbers of financial records destroyed after a fire broke out at the multi-storied office.

Flames reportedly tore through the building at around 1200GMT on Tuesday, when many employees were on their lunch break.

"We went to eat and people called us to say that our building was on fire," treasury worker Aicha Kone, one among the hundreds watching the blaze in the country's largest city, Abidjan, said.


Read more: http://english.aljazeera.net/news/africa/2011/02/20112816572445449.html

[bemildred]

1. An unfortunate accident, no doubt.

:sarcasm:

[Brother Buzz]

2. Fortunately, my locked trunk of cash was secreted away before the fire

Laurent Gbagbo's trusty clerk will be shipping it to me as soon as I send a minor exportation tax fee through Western Union, or something.