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Hotel fire kills five, injures two
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2006-03-19 09:59
Five people were confirmed dead and two others injured in a hotel fire in
Northeast China's Jilin Province Saturday evening, the local government said
early on Sunday.
Fire broke out at around 7:40 p.m. in the Xinqiao Hotel in Yanji, a city in
the Korean Autonomous Prefecture of Yanbian, a source of the city government
told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.
He said more than 40 guests had checked in at the hotel, most of whom were
out when the fire broke out. "Those who were in tried to escape the fire in
panic," he said without giving further details.
Twenty-six fire engines and 136 firemen joined the subsequent rescue
operation. The fire had destroyed the entire seven-story hotel building when the
flames were finally put out in the small hours on Sunday, the official said.
He said firemen were still searching the burned hotel rooms one by one for
possible casualties early on Sunday, and local police are seeing into the cause
of the fire.
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