'Slumdog' star's home lost in Mumbai fire

MUMBAI, India Rubina says most of the awards that she received for her role as a poverty-stricken child in the Oscar-winning film have been destroyed in the blaze that erupted in the Garib Nagar slum late Friday.

The 12-year-old star said Saturday that she and other members of her family were watching television when they heard shouts of a fire and ran out of their tin-roofed shanty.

Rubina said the family was yet to move into a new apartment paid for by a trust set up by the film's director Danny Boyle.

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