Policemen and rescuers stand near the site where fire broke out through a building in central Paris early August 30, 2005.  (Xinhua/AFP photo)

PARIS, Aug. 30 (Xinhuanet) -- Seven people were killed in a fire that swept through a Paris building where African immigrants were living, firefighters said Tuesday.

    Just four days ago, a deadly blaze killed 17 Africans in the French capital.

    Fourteen people were injured, three of them seriously, in the latest fire which started late Monday and ravaged the six-story building in the Marais district in the 3rd arrondissement of Paris, police said.

    Among the killed there was a child who died in hospital. The bodies of the six others were found in the building, firefighters said.

    

Fire trucks head for the site where fire broke out through a building in central Paris early August 30, 2005. (Xinhua photo)

The cause for the fire was not clear yet.

    District officials said a dozen families from the Ivory Coast lived in the building, whose conditions authorities said were "absolutely inadmissible and dangerous."

    On Friday, 14 children and three adults were killed in a blaze in southeastern Paris at a rundown apartment building which also housed African immigrants. Enditem