Tragedy in China: a martial arts school burns: 18 people die, most of the school’s students. The fire took place in Zhecheng County, in the central area of the country. According to local media reports, 34 students were present on the premises when the flames broke out. Of the 18 victims most are school-going boys, aged between 7 and 16. There are also 16 injured, four of them seriously. All were admitted to a local hospital.
The director of the center, which is located in Henan province, he has been arrested. The fire developed during the night and spread to the first floor of the building that housed the bedroom. Many of the young people were surprised in their sleep. A terrible scene occurred to the rescuers, who arrived at the scene after the alarmed calls of those who had seen the smoke and flames that enveloped the building. Fires of this type, according to international sources, are quite common in China. More than 20 people, for example, were killed in two fires in Beijing’s migrant neighborhoods in 2017. The first fire, which killed 19 people in November of that year, prompted authorities to start demolishing unused buildings. safe in the capital, leaving hundreds of thousands of people on the streets in the dead of winter.
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