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A fire in an asylum centre in the south of Germany, which left one dead and a dozen injured, may have been caused by a 5-year-old boy, police said. Initial investigations indicate that the boy had been playing with a lighter in the accommodation in the Bavarian town of Nördlingen, the police said on Monday. The furnishings in the flat apparently caught fire and the flames then spread to the other flats. The fire broke out on Sunday afternoon and has since been extinguished. A 64-year-old man reportedly collapsed on the premises and later died in hospital. According to the police, the man had l…

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