Eleven people were killed in a fire at a café in Hanoi on Wednesday night, and the police have arrested a man believed to have started the fire, according to Vietnam's Ministry of Public Security on Thursday, reports Reuters.
The police said in a statement that the man had confessed to using gasoline to light a fire on the ground floor of the three-storey cafe after an argument with staff.
The state-run Tien Phong newspaper reported the suspect is aged in his early 50s. The police said the fire was first reported to them just after 11pm (1600 GMT) on Wednesday.
One witness told the Tien Phong newspaper, "The fire blocked all the exits, and there was a strong smell of gasoline," while another mentioned hearing an explosion.
Seven people were rescued from the fire, with two of them hospitalised, the police statement said.
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