More than ten people were believed to remain trapped in a wholesale market that had been ravaged by fire in south China's Guangdong Province on Thursday afternoon, witnesses said.
The fire broke out at about 1:51 p.m. in a warehouse on the fourth floor of a small merchandise wholesale market in Huidong County. It had been put under control by 7:35 p.m., the county government said in a statement.
Fire fighters have rescued three people and are still searching for the others.
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Rescuers lift a faint family member of a trapped person into an ambulance after fire broke out at the Yiwu commodity wholesale market in Huidong city, South China's Guangdong province, Feb 5, 2014. [Photo/South China Metropolis Daily] |
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