Warsaw - Poland's government will allot one million zloty (305,269 dollars) to aid families and survivors of a fire that killed 22 people and injured 20, Prime Minister Donald Tusk said Tuesday. Poland will also build a new facility for those left homeless by the blaze that struck a hostel for the homeless in the early hours of Monday. A seven-person commission was investigating the cause.

Warsaw - Police in Poland were on Tuesday searching for two residents of a hostel for the homeless where a weekend fire killed 21 people and injured 21 others, local media reported. Seventy-seven people were registered in the hostel in the Baltic Sea coastal town of Kamien Pomorski, around 500 kilometres north-west of the capital Warsaw. The fire erupted late Sunday after midnight.

Of the 77 people registered, 54 are alive and 23 now feared dead. Twenty-one bodies have been recovered so far.

Warsaw - Twenty-one people were killed and some 20 others injured when a hostel for the homeless burned down Monday in north- western Poland. Seventy-seven people were registered in the hostel in the Baltic Sea coastal town of Kamien Pomorski, some 500 kilometres north-west of the capital Warsaw.

The fire was so ferocious and spread so greatly that there was no hope of extinguishing it and rescuers concentrated on saving people from the flames, a firefighter told TVN24.

Warsaw - Eighteen people died and 21 more were injured when a hotel burned down Monday on Poland's Baltic Sea coast, local media reported. The fire was so big and had spread so much that there was no hope for extinguishing it, and rescuers concentrated on saving people from the flames, a firefighter told TVN24.

Witnesses said some hotel guests were injured when they jumped from windows.

Warsaw - Poland is to increase its troop numbers in Afghanistan to 2,000 ahead of the troubled country's presidential elections, it was announced Friday. Poland currently has 1,600 soldiers in Afghanistan as part of the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF).

Polish President Lech Kaczynski has approved the request by his government for the additional forces, Defence Minister Bogdan Klich said on Friday in Krakow.

Warsaw - Seventy years after the outbreak of World War II, Poland will launch a database of some 2 million victims of the fighting, the daily Polska reported on Thursday.

The database will be available in the next several days on straty. pl, and will include the location and circumstances of the victims' death. Families or loved ones will have the option to add to the list of victims.