Georgia Man Killed In Rome, Italy Hotel Fire
POSTED: 12:17 p.m. EDT May 1, 2004
Rome, Italy -- A fire broke out at a luxury Roman hotel early today, killing an American from Georgia and two Canadians.
Italian news reports say police are questioning two people who may have started the blaze.
Authorities say the fire broke out before dawn in a room on the third floor of the Parco dei Principe hotel near Rome's Villa
Borghese park.
They say one man -- James Edward Lawery of Georgia -- threw himself from the window of the hotel and died. Two other people -- a Canadian couple -- were found dead in their room.
The blaze spread to other rooms on the floor, forcing the evacuation of the hotel's guests.
The ANSA news agency quoted a third floor guest as saying he had seen two young people -- believed to be Americans -- leaving the room where the blaze originated shortly after the fire alarm rang.
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