CHINA-JILIN-CHANGCHUN-RESTAURANT-FIRE-ACCIDENT (CN)
(220928) -- CHANGCHUN, Sept. 28, 2022 (Xinhua) -- Photo taken on Sept. 28, 2022 shows the site of a fire accident at a restaurant in Changchun, northeast China's Jilin Province. Seventeen people were killed and another three injured in a restaurant fire in Changchun, capital of northeast China's Jilin Province, local authorities said Wednesday.
The local fire brigade received reports of the incident that occurred in the Changchun high-tech industrial development zone at 12:40 p.m. Wednesday. Firefighters immediately rushed to the site for rescue.
As of 3 p.m., the on-site search and rescue work had ended.
The injured are being treated in a local hospital and the cause of the incident is being investigated.
The Ministry of Emergency Management said that it had dispatched a work team to the site to provide guidance for the rescue work.
The ministry called for efforts to handle the incident in a safe and scientific manner and ascertain the causes of the fire as soon as possible. (Xinhua/Zhao Danda
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