20140721 China Fire sweeps through factories in Xinjiang
China Jul 21 2014 “Factories”
Dead : dead 0 or unknown Burnout : 1 to 29 Injured : injured 0 or unknown
Fire sweeps through factories in Xinjiang
Updated: 2014-07-21-9:38
URUMQI – Hundreds of people were evacuated Monday morning after a fire swept through several factories and a residential building in Urumqi, capital of Northwest China’s Xinjiang autonomous region.
No information on casualties is immediately available.
The fire that broke out at around 1 am Monday was put out at around 7 am, before it swept through a sofa plant, an open-air storage place for cardboard boxes, a plastic-crushing plant, a storage house for building materials and a residential building in Saybag District in southern Urumqi.
More than 200 fire fighters aided with 55 fire engines are still clearing the ember and checking casualties.
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