Fire in Myanmar's Yangon kills 2, including Japanese

A fire engulfed a luxury hotel popular with foreigners in Yangon, Myanmar's largest city, early Thursday, killing at least two people.Two bodies have been found at the site so far with one being identified as a Japanese man named Masafumi Tomita, in his 50s, who had been staying at Kandawgyi Palace Hotel, according to police sources.The other body was yet to be identified as it had been charred by the fire, they said. A woman from Macao was also injured while she was evacuating.The fire started on the fifth floor of the lakeside hotel at around 3:30 a.m. and engulfed most of the building be…READ FULL ARTICLE