Charity says victims being compensated

SHANGHAI -A Shanghai charity has refuted allegations that it is withholding large amounts of money slated for victims of last November's deadly fire.

The Jing'an branch of the Shanghai Charity Foundation on Tuesday night said that it had already distributed 28.3 million yuan ($4.4 million) of the 54.6 million yuan received in donations.

The announcement refuted rumors circulating on the Internet that only 4.2 million yuan from various public resources had been handed out to the victims.