Six hundred people gathered today at a mosque in Burnsville to mourn two of the five people who died early Wednesday morning in a fire on the 14th floor of a high-rise apartment in the Cedar-Riverside neighborhood of Minneapolis. Investigators have not yet determined the cause but say it appears to be accidental. Three of those killed in the fire were Somali-Americans, ages 67, 69 and 79. Another victim was a 59-year-old man, and the fifth victim has not yet been identified.
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