Extinguish fire risk of electric bikes

FIVE STUDENTS died and 24 were injured in a fire in Guilin, the Guangxi Zhuang autonomous region, on Sunday. Beijing Youth Daily comments:

According to a news release from the local fire department, the battery of an electric bicycle parked beside a building for students ignited, starting the fire. The incident is still being investigated and some people have been detained.

This is not the first fatal fire caused by an electric bicycle. In December 2017, five people were killed and nine injured when an electric bike started a fire in Beijing, and in July last year, one person was killed and another injured in Wuxi, Jiangsu province. In fact, type "electric bicycle" and "fire" into any online searching engine and you will get hundreds of pages recording them.