Company dorm fire leaves 11 dead, 10 injured in east China city
4/12/2008 16:20
Eleven workers were killed and 10 others injured in a fire that broke out
this morning in a seafood company in the coastal city of Qingdao, east China's
Shandong Province.
The victims are all males. Six of them were from the
central China's Henan Province and the rest were from Shandong, said an official
with the Qingdao Public Security Bureau.
"The company has informed their
families and they were expected to arrive in Qingdao tonight or tomorrow morning
to deal with the aftermath," said the official.
Earlier in the morning, the
injured had been taken to a hospital.
"Doctors said they were slightly
injured and were all out of danger," said an official with the city's fire
control department, who asked to remain anonymous.
The fire occurred at 1:40
a.m. in a dormitory of the Qingdao Jiayuan Michael Food Co, Ltd in the Chengyang
District.
"There were 84 bunk beds in the building but only 51 workers were
inside when the fire broke out," said the official.
In surrounding
dormitories there were more than 160 people, all of whom managed to
escape.
None of the company's food processing areas were affected.
There
were around 80 fire fighters and 10 fire engines who had the fire out in less
than one hour, he said.
An investigation into the cause is
underway.
Established in 1998, the Jiayuan Michael Food Co,. Ltd is a Sino-US
joint venture producing frozen fish. It employs 600 people.
Xinhua
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