On Friday, state media announced that at least 10 people were killed and 9 others injured when a fire broke out in an apartment building in Urumqi, the capital of Xinjiang, an autonomous region in northwest China.
“The fire swept through a high-rise residential building in the Tianshan district of Urumqi late Friday night,” the local Xinhua news agency said.
Firefighting teams and rescue workers evacuated the building and put out the fire, according to the same source.
The agency added that “the local authorities opened an investigation to discover the cause of the fire.”
