Apartment building fire in northern China kills 14
Authorities said 38 people were sent to hospitals as firefighters extinguished the blaze and completed search-and-rescue efforts, with the cause still under investigation.
- A fire in an apartment building in Taiyuan, Shanxi, killed 14 people on Nov 8, state media reported. Authorities said the blaze broke out around 5 p.m. and was extinguished that same day.
- Following the completion of search and rescue efforts on Nov 8, authorities continue to investigate the cause of the blaze. Firefighters worked on-site as the incident unfolded in the residential high-rise.
- A total of 38 people were sent to hospitals for treatment, Xinhua reported. The confirmed death toll was raised to 14 on Nov 9.
- Persistent safety challenges in China are demonstrated by recent deadly blazes, including a shoe-factory fire that killed at least 28 people and a residential fire in Guangdong that killed 12.
- Following a Hong Kong tower-block blaze that killed 168 people, China launched a national campaign against high-rise fire hazards last Nov. Regulators may implement stricter enforcement measures as scrutiny intensifies.
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High-rise residential fire kills at least 14 in China's northern city of Taiyuan
BEIJING — A fire broke out at a high-rise residential building in Taiyuan, the capital of China's northern province of Shanxi, killing at least 14 people, the official Xinhua news agency said on Monday (Nov 9).State media said 25 people were still in hospital, nine with serious injuries, citing authorities after the fire broke out on Sunday evening in the building on a busy downtown main road.Smoke billowed over the 40-storey structure as firefi…
China High-Rise Fire Kills 14 in Taiyuan, Dozens Hospitalised
At least 14 people have been killed and dozens of others taken to hospital after a fire engulfed a high-rise building in the northern Chinese city of Taiyuan, prompting an emergency response involving firefighters and rescue teams, local authorities said. The South China Morning Post reported on Monday, November 9, citing the local Yingze district […]
At least 14 people have died in a fire at a high-rise building in China. Several injured people remain hospitalized and authorities are investigating.
Twenty-five people continue to be hospitalized, nine of them serious, while teams investigate the source of the Sunday disaster
A fire broke out in a building in Taiyuan, a city in northern China, on the weekends. The fire cost at least 14 people their lives, and dozens more were injured.
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