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60 people injured in Hunan market fire
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2004-12-21 15:23
More than 60 people injured in a fire occurred Tuesday morning at a market in
Changde City of central China's Hunan Province were been hospitalized, the
rescue headquarters said Tuesday.
Firefighters
try to extinguish the fire at the market in Changde, Hunan Province
December 21, 2004. Some 60 people were injured in the fire.
[newsphoto] | At least one fireman was
encircled by raging flames, which is still ablaze due to strong wind and lack of
adequate water supply. Some shops at the Qiaonan wholesale and retail market in
Changde City have collapsed. The Wuling Township, where the market was located,
was enveloped by heavy smoke.
Upon hearing report of the accident, Yang Zhengwu, secretary ofthe Hunan
Provincial Committee of the Chinese Communist Party, andprovincial governor Zhou
Bohua entrusted vice-governor Xu Yunzhao to organize the rescue operation,
urging rescuers to spare no efforts in extinguishing the fire and reduce the
casualties to theminimum extent.
Built in the early 1990s, the multi-storey wholesale and retailmarket houses
hundreds of businesses with a multi-billion sales annually.
Investigation into the cause of the fire and the exact
number of casualties is underway.
Thick smokes billow
out of the Qiaonan wholesale market in Changde, Hunan Province December
21, 2004. [newsphoto]
Smokes still billow
out of the market in Changde, Hunan December 21, 2004.
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