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16 sentenced over nursing home fire

A court in Lushan county sentenced 16 people involved in a fire in 2015 to prison on Thursday. On May 25, 2015, a fire at a nursing home in the county killed 39 and injured six, causing direct economic losses worth more than 20 million yuan ($3 million). Fan Huazhi, legal representative of the nursing home, was sentenced to nine years in prison and fined 500,000 yuan. Ten officials were sentenced to up to six years in prison for abuse of power or dereliction of duty.