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Lucky escape after fire at Zurich's 'Houdini' cinema

Caroline Bishop
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Lucky escape after fire at Zurich's 'Houdini' cinema
The fire broke out on Tuesday morning. Photo: Marcel Haertlein

Some 40 people had a thankfully successful escape from the aptly-named Houdini cinema in Zurich on Tuesday morning when a fire broke out, causing several thousand francs of damage.

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Emergency services were called to the art-house multiplex cinema on Badenerstrasse in the Kalkbreite area of central Zurich at around 7.30am after a passer-by saw smoke pouring out of the building, news agency ATS reported.

Firemen evacuated 40 people, but no one was injured.

The cause of the fire remains unknown, though it is thought to have started in the bar on the ground floor of the building.

The Houdini cinema, which only opened last August, occupies the first three floors of the seven-storey building which also comprises apartments, shops and restaurants.

Passers-by took to Twitter to photograph the early-morning activity.

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