House fire in Rochester, N.Y., kills two college students

Nov. 9, 2007
Victims in rental house blaze attended Rochester Institute of Technology.

An early morning fire in Rochester, N.Y., has claimed the lives of two Rochester Institute of Technology students and has seriously injured a third. The fatalities were Seth Policzer, 21, of Parkland, Fla., a computer engineering student, and Syed Ali Turab, 21, a communications student from New Milford, N.J. A third student, Michael DiCocco, was hospitalized in guarded condition. At least five of the six students who were in the house attended RIT.

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