Xinhua world news summary at 0630 GMT, Dec. 31

NEW DELHI -- At least six people died, and around nine others injured when a fire broke out inside a factory in India's southwestern state of Maharashtra on the intervening night of Saturday and Sunday, confirmed a local cop to Xinhua over phone.

The fire broke out inside a hand-gloves manufacturing unit in the state's Chhatrapati Sambhajinagar district, when the victims were asleep. (India-Fire-Deaths)

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