2024-02-24 01:36:57
– 15 dead in residential building fire in China
Nanjing city authorities announced the death of at least 15 people in a fire at a residential building on Friday.
Published today at 02:36
In January, 13 schoolchildren lost their lives in a fire in a dormitory at a boarding school in central China.
A fire Friday in a residential building left at least 15 dead and 44 injured in eastern China, according to a provisional report announced Saturday by authorities in the city of Nanjing.
The causes of the incident are under investigation but initial indications are that the fire started where electric two-wheelers were located, the authorities said. Nanking, which was the imperial capital, is located approximately 260 kilometers northwest of Shanghai.
Insufficient safety standards
At a press conference, the city’s mayor, Chen Zhichang, offered his condolences and apologies to the victims’ families. The fire, which broke out at 4:39 a.m. on Friday, required 25 fire trucks to put out, emergency services said.
Images posted on Chinese social networks show the top of a skyscraper on fire in the middle of the night and immense smoke emanating from it. Fires or other accidents occur regularly in China, often due to insufficient safety standards.
In January, at least 39 people died in a store fire in central China. The same month, 13 schoolchildren lost their lives in a fire in a boarding school dormitory, still in the center of the country.
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