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Fire in cafe dormitory kills four in E.China

(Xinhua)
Updated: 2010-02-25 20:16
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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 a.m., 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.