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Copenhagen fights the last pockets of a fire that destroyed a 400-year-old landmark

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Danish firefighters were still at work extinguishing the last pockets of a fire that destroyed a 400-year-old Copenhagen landmark a day after the blaze began.

“This is sad, so sad,” said Mikkel Jensen, a 44-year-old civil servant, as he looked up at the twisted scaffolding still clinging to the ruins of the city's Old Stock Exchange.

Morten Langager, manager of the Danish Chamber of Commerce, which was headquartered

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