Two Japanese firefighters were killed and others were injured Monday battling a fire in Osaka's Dotonbori shopping district.
The firefighters, 22 and 55, became trapped while battling the fire on the sixth floor, Japan Today reported.
Three other firefighters and a civlian were taken to a hospital for treatment.
The fire spread from the building of origin to the fifth and sixth floors of an adjacent structure.
The cause remains under investigation.
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