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Workers tried to escape the flames but the fire door leading to the street had been padlocked, a measure aimed at preventing thefts.

“Good thing I padlocked my door,” Kat said under her breath.

An employee padlocked a metal gate between the shop’s glass front door and its sales floor when approached by a reporter in September.

He also padlocked Congress, ordered the arrest of political rivals and left-wing activists and ruled by decree.

Archaeologists in Poland have uncovered the remains of a 17th-century child padlocked to his grave to stop him rising from the dead, a discovery that turns the spotlight on beliefs in vampires as Halloween approaches.