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Neighbors ask for remedy after CCTV tower blaze
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2009-08-11 10:10
 

Neighbors ask for remedy after CCTV tower blaze
This February 9 file photo shows the Mandarin Oriental Hotel in blaze in Beijing. [Agencies] 

BEIJING: About 30 residents took to the street in eastern Beijing Tuesday morning, demanding compensation for damages to their property during a blaze that seized a building at CCTV's new site early this year.

The anguished residents from about 30 households near the landmark new tower of China Central Television gathered at around 8:35 a.m., putting up posters demanding compensation from the CCTV and protesting against "forced relocation".

Police officers were seen at the site to appease the protestors and listen to their complaints.

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The residents complained of damages to their property in the February 9 fire that engulfed the complex housing some CCTV facilities as well as the unopened Mandarin Oriental Hotel near the futuristic tower of the state broadcaster.

The fire was caused by a powerful fireworks show put on by CCTV.

The burnt building and CCTV's main tower were both designed by Rem Koolhaas's Rotterdam-based Office for Metropolitan Architecture.