10 killed in apartment fire in China’s port city Tianjin

A pre-dawn fire tore through an apartment in a high-rise building in the port city of Tianjin in northern China on Friday, killing 10 people and wounding five others, state media reported.

The fire broke out on the 38th floor of the building in Tianjin’s Hexi District around 4 a.m., according to the local fire department.

Ten people were killed, while five



others were left injured in the inferno, the state-run Xinhua news agency reported.

The flames were completely doused by 6:40 a.m. by the firefighters, even as an area of about 300 sq metres was damaged, it said.

What caused the inferno was yet to be ascertained, but it is believed to have started in an area with housing interior decoration materials.