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Furniture factory blaze kills 4, including child
Created: 2008-11-5 0:43:46
FOUR people were confirmed dead and two others injured after a furniture factory in northwest China's Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region caught fire early yesterday, the local government said.
Fire engulfed Yingjia Furniture Plant in Shuimogou District of downtown Urumqi at around 2:15am. Three workers and a 4-year-old boy, who was staying with his mother in the plant's dormitory, were killed, said a spokesman at the city's public security bureau.
The boy's mother was Du Quanying, 37. Also killed were Jin Xia, a 30-year-old woman from Shaanxi Province, and Tong Yuanxin, 18, from the central Hunan Province.
The two injured were the plant's manager, a 31-year-old man from Shaanxi Province and a 51-year-old worker from the southwestern Sichuan.
The furniture plant was small and privately owned, and employed about 20 people, mostly migrants, the spokesman said.
Fire engulfed Yingjia Furniture Plant in Shuimogou District of downtown Urumqi at around 2:15am. Three workers and a 4-year-old boy, who was staying with his mother in the plant's dormitory, were killed, said a spokesman at the city's public security bureau.
The boy's mother was Du Quanying, 37. Also killed were Jin Xia, a 30-year-old woman from Shaanxi Province, and Tong Yuanxin, 18, from the central Hunan Province.
The two injured were the plant's manager, a 31-year-old man from Shaanxi Province and a 51-year-old worker from the southwestern Sichuan.
The furniture plant was small and privately owned, and employed about 20 people, mostly migrants, the spokesman said.
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