Fire engulfs office tower in southern Chinese city

By Reuters   September 16, 2022 | 03:21 am PT
A massive fire engulfed a high-rise office building in downtown Changsha, capital of China's southern province of Hunan, on Friday afternoon, state media reported.
Fire engulfs a high-rise office building in downtown Changsha. Screen shot from a video on Twitter/@tongbingxue

Fire engulfs a high-rise office building in downtown Changsha. Screen shot from a video on Twitter/@tongbingxue

Dozens of storeys of the more than 200-metre tall (656-foot) China Telecom building "burned with great intensity", sending thick smoke into the sky, state broadcaster CCTV said.

The fire has been put out, but casualty numbers are not known yet, it reported.

 
 
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