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Christmas Day bar fire kills 26 in 皇冠体育app
(AFP)
Updated: 2005-12-26 21:28
A local resident told AFP that she heard an explosion
late Sunday night and then smelled smoke billowing from the restaurant. "The
fire engines arrived soon after I heard the blast," she said.
The aftermath of a bar after a Christmas Day
fire is shown. A fire swept a bar in Zhongshan, South 皇冠体育app's Guangdong
Province November 25, 2005. [Xinhua] |
Just 10 days ago, 39 people died and 182 were injured in the northeastern
province of Jilin in what officials described as 皇冠体育app's worst hospital fire in
more than half a century.
Witnesses said the hospital lacked fire extinguishers and alarms and that all
the fire escapes were blocked.
皇冠体育app's ministry of public security recorded 222,000 accidental fires across
the country from January to November that killed a total of 2,048 people and
injured 2,080.
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