Nine killed in Guangdong blaze
Updated: 2013-05-24 18:02
By Qiu Quanlin (chinadaily.com.cn)
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Nine people, including three boys, were killed in a fire in the Nanhai district of Foshan, Guangdong province, on Friday morning, sources with the provincial emergency management office said.
The blaze, which occurred at 5.26 am at a 96-square-meter vehicle center in an industrial zone, was put out an hour later.
An investigation is under way, the emergency management office said.
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