22 people were killed and three were hurt in a restaurant fire in northeastern China on Tuesday ( Apr 29 ), according to Beijing’s state broadcaster.
Liaoyang City, located about 580 kilometers east of Beijing, was the site of the fire that broke out.
A blaze broke out at a restaurant at 12:25 pm on April 29 according to CCTV.
The event has resulted in 22 incidents and three wounds as of 2 p.m., it continued.
According to President Xi Jinping, the fire left” important casualties” and taught “profoundly serious” classes, according to CCTV.
According to Xi, “every effort must be made to handle the injured, effectively tackle the aftermath for the deceased, provide support to their families, quickly determine the cause of the fire, and follow accountability in accordance with the law,” the report continued.
A two-story cafe was engulfed in heavy black smoke and thick black smoke billowing upward, according to footage that was shared online and verified by AFP.
Another verified videos that were posted on TikTok, China’s version of TikTok, featured paramedics wheeling one survivor on a bed into an emergency and some firefighters hose-fighting the flames.
Due to weak building regulations and a frequently slipshod method to workplace safety, fatal fires are fairly common in China.
In a blaze at a nursing home in Hebei province, north China, this month, 20 people died.
And in January, a blaze at a fruit business in Zhangjiakou, in the northwest of Beijing, claimed the lives of eight people and wounded 15.
Nine people died in a fire at a construction site in Rongcheng, northeast China, a fortnight prior.