A restaurant fire in the Northeast China killed 22 people and injured three on Tuesday, the state media said, the footage posted online shown fierce flames which are attaching the building.
According to Chinese broadcaster, Blaze exploded at lunch in Liayang City of about 580 km (360 mi) in the northeast of the capital Beijing, according to the Chinese broadcaster CCTV,
“The incident resulted in 22 deaths and three injuries,” said this.
President Xi Jinping said that Blaze had caused the “number of significant casualties” and that the lessons were “intensively seriously”, CCTV Said.
Xi “made every effort to treat the injured, handle the deceased properly and supported his families, determined the cause of the rapid fire, and chased accountability according to the law,” the report states.
Footage shared by online and verified AFP Showed the two-storey restaurants and smokers to the sky, extending the smoke towards the sky.
Another certified video published on Douin, a Chinese version of Tikok, showed a victim on an ambulance to a stretcher and several firefighters showed several firefighters struggling with the flames with the hoses.
In another video of the social media platform shot over the scene, more than a dozen fire engines were parked outside the restaurant.
A woman working in a nearby restaurant said that she was out all day and knew only about the incident when she read news articles about the fire.
“We didn’t know about it and continued normally,” she told AFP On the phone.
The woman, who did not want to identify, said that she had a “no idea”, but she said that she listened to Siren and there was still police outside her restaurant.
“It was definitely very sad,” he said.
Lux building codes in China and frequent slipshod approaches for workplace safety are relatively common in China.
