At least 26 people are killed in a fire in an office building in northern China
At least 26 people were killed and dozens of others hospitalized when a fire broke out at a coal company’s office building in a provincial city southwest of Beijing on Thursday, Chinese state news media reported.
The fire started around 7 a.m. at the offices of Yongju Coal Company in Lüliang, a city in northern Shanxi province, the official Xinhua news agency reported. Few other details were immediately available.
Last November, a fire at a two-story factory in central Henan province killed at least 38 people. A few days later, a fire at an apartment building in the far western region of Xinjiang killed at least 10 people.
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