15 killed ... fire engines line up near the scene of the deadly fire / AP
Video shop fire kills 15, injures 10
Dead all believed to be male customers
Store had 32 rooms for private viewing of videos
FIRE broke out in a video shop in the western Japanese city of Osaka early today, killing 15 men and injuring 10 other people.
Firefighters received an emergency call at about 3am from a clerk at the video shop, which had 32 rooms for private viewing of rented videos, fire control centre official Takashi Ishida said.
"Fifteen people, all men, died. All of them are believed to be customers of the video shop," he said.
It was not immediately clear whether they died of burns or smoke inhalation.
Ten other people - nine men on other floors of the seven-storey building and one woman in an adjacent building - were injured in the blaze.
