A fire that broke out in a high-rise shopping mall in southwest China on Wednesday killed at least sixteen people, according to the latest casualty count carried today by the official Xinhua news agency. The fire broke out, officially from an as yet unknown cause, last night (local time) in Qigong, a city of about 2.5 million inhabitants in Sichuan Province, 1,600 kilometers from the capital Beijing. Search and rescue and firefighting operations ended at around 03:00 today (local time; yesterday at 22:00 Greek time), New China reported, citing local emergency officials. About thirty people were rescued and taken away by ambulances, state broadcaster CCTV said. The fire broke out in a shopping center on the ground floor of a 14-story building and spread beyond the ground floor to the 4th, 5th and 6th floors, according to the same source. CCTV footage shows thick black smoke billowing from a building onto a road […]
Source: News Beast
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