Fire kills 19 in a New York apartment

19 people, including nine children, have died after a fire in a New York apartment building. Another 32 people were sent to hospital, several of whom are in a critical condition.
 The victims were found on every floor of the 19-storey block and the smoke was "unprecedented". The death toll was the worst seen in New York for 30 years.
 The incident comes days after an apartment fire in Philadelphia killed 12, with eight children among the dead.
 Some 200 firefighters were sent to tackle the blaze, which officials believe was sparked by a malfunctioning electric heater. The fire broke out in an apartment that spans the second and third floors of the Bronx apartment block at about 11:00 local time
(16:00 GMT).
 The building hosts a number of affordable housing apartments and the blaze is likely to raise questions over the quality of such units in the city. The door to the apartment where the fire started was left open, and smoke then spread to every floor.