A fire has reportedly destroyed a building in the Netherlands where alleged World War I spy and exotic dancer Mata Hari was born.
The building, situated in the northern city of Leeuwarden, was shown in TV images to have been engulfed in flames on Saturday.
According to Fox News, Mata Hari was born in that building as Margaretha Zelle, the daughter of a Dutch businessman, in 1876.
The report mentioned that she won acclaim as an exotic dancer in Paris in the early 1900s and was executed by firing squad by the French in 1917 on suspicion of spying for Germany, though her guilt was long a question of historical dispute.
