10 monks injured in German monastery fire

Ten monks, including one aged 100 years old, have been injured after a fire broke out at a Franciscan monastery in southern Germany early on Sunday, police said. The centenarian was flown by helicopter to a specialist clinic suffering from serious burns from the blaze at the monastery in the Bavarian town of Fuessen near the Austrian border, they said. A firefighter and a woman police officer were also hurt, police in the region said. Emergency services managed to get all the residents - aged between 42 and 100 - out of the burning building, some of them by climbing down ladders.