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Fire in cafe dormitory kills 4 in E China

(Xinhua)
Updated: 2010-02-25 17:08
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FUZHOU: Four cafe workers in eastern China's Fujian province were killed when their dormitory caught fire Thursday morning, the local government said.

At around 4:32 am, a dormitory for U.B.C. cafe workers in Zhongshan neighborhood, Liancheng county, caught fire, leaving four sleeping female workers dead.

U.B.C. cafe is a Taiwan-funded enterprise.

Three of the victims were from Liancheng and one was from Quanzhou city, Fujian.

The cause of the accident is being investigated.