China fire toll put at 60
Smoke from a fire that raced through a textile factory in the southern Chinese city of Fuzhou early on Monday suffocated 60 workers as they slept in their dormitory, Reuter reports from Peking. Those who died had no chance to escape flames that engulfed the dormitory and a warehouse.
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