ARGENTINA-Seven firefighters and two civil defence workers have met their untimely death in Argentina’s capital, Buenos Aires while tackling the blaze at a bank’s archive.

According to the Argentine’s Secretary for Security, Sergio Berni, the victims were crushed when a 7m-high (23 ft) wall collapsed on top of them.

The inferno was so fatal that it took 10 fire crews several hours to get the blaze under control.

Seven other people got injured in the incident, although the cause is yet unknown.

Rescuer workers had to remove rubble by hand to reach the dead and injured.