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Restaurant fire kills six in China

09:14 19/11/2009

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Six people died and three suffered burn injuries when a fire broke out in a restaurant in China's eastern Shandong province in the early hours of Thursday, Xinhua said.

The fire flared up at 2:30 a.m. local time (18:30 GMT, Wednesday) and was raging for an hour and a half in a Qingyun county, the news agency said, quoting local officials.

Seven people were rescued from the blaze, three of them suffered minor injuries, Xinhua said.

The investigation is underway.

BEIJING, November 19 (RIA Novosti)

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