17 people were killed and 24 others injured in a southern Beijing suburb Monday morning in the deadliest fire the Chinese capital has seen in nine years.
Nine men and eight women died in the fire, and most of them were migrant workers seeking accommodation in the building, said Wang Xin, deputy chief of the Daxing District Committee of the Communist Party of China.
Out of the 17 dead, thirteen were workers hired by an unlicensed garment workshop called Yuyun and the other four were tenants in the four-story building. And 11 of the dead lived on the ground floor, said Wang.
A Green Paper on the Rural Economy estimates a 9 percent rise in prices for agricultural produce this year, Beijing Times reported Wednesday.
Grain prices will rise 10 percent, according to the Green Paper jointly issued by the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and the National Bureau of Statistics (NBS) on Tuesday.
China's first emergency evacuation helicopter goes into service at a private hospital in Changyuan county, Central China's Henan province, April 20, 2011.
The plane can carry five people and travel up to 700 kilometers in a single flight. It aims to facilitate prompt medical aid for patients who live in remote areas and to invite more experts from other provinces to help with diagnosis.
Read more: China Private hospital starts China’s 1st medevac program
The shooter is confirmed to be a policeman (surname Lu) from a police station of Laibing Guangxi. Lu and his colleague Wong dispute with restaurant waitress on price, Lu shot at 2 waitresses Li and Qin on 18th April 2011. Li and Qin was send to hospital immediately, none of them are life threatening.
China policeman Lu and his colleague Wong are in custody.
China Telecom Shanghai office building caught on fire at 13:30 19th Apr. 2011, on the first day of Shanghai Auto Show 2011.
China Telecom Shanghai office building is located in the downtown Shanghai, near the People's square. The fire take place on the 13rd floor of China Telecom Shanghai office building. 4 people died on the way to hospital in ambulance.
Read more: 2011 China Telecom Shanghai Office Building Fire takes 4 Lives
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