It was later determined that the party was not the cause of the fire, and was a mere tragic coincidence.

That may be a tragic coincidence and nothing more, Monty offered.

"An inexplicable tragic coincidence - that is how the official special services tried to explain the events," the newspaper Izvestia said.

Mr. Puz called the recent attacks "unfortunate and tragic, unrelated coincidences in three different geographical regions of the state."

In a tragic coincidence, her Grange Hill character was killed after slipping and falling out of a burning building, paralleling her real life death 4 years later.

Investigators said they were trying to determine if the slayings were somehow linked or only a bizarre and tragic coincidence.

This was considered a strange and tragic coincidence as she was well known for her role in Scent of Love as a woman dying of stomach cancer.

Number three: tragic coincidences.

SOTE was thus satisfied that no one could have planned such an improbable event, and dismissed the collision as a tragic coincidence.

In what police say was a tragic coincidence, gunfire was heard from a house across the street.