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Dormitory fire kills 11 workers in eastern China

09:37 04/12/2008

BEIJING, December 4 (RIA Novosti) - Eleven workers have been killed and 10 injured in a fire that broke out in a dormitory in China's eastern province of Shandong, the Xinhua news agency said on Thursday.

The fire broke out overnight at a dormitory belonging to a Chinese-American frozen fish company. Over 80 firefighters and 10 fire engines rushed to the scene to tackle the blaze.

A doctor told Xinhua that the injured were "out of danger."

On Tuesday, 11 girls died of carbon monoxide poisoning at a secondary school in northwest China after a heater caught fire. On Wednesday, seven elderly people died in a blaze in a retirement home in eastern China's province of Zhejiang.

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