Five workers are dead and five others were injured after a fire
broke out in a power plant Sunday in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, the local
police said on Monday.
The fire began at 1:00 PM at a subsidiary of Datang
International Power Generation Co. Ltd. in Togtoh county in the
suburbs of the regional capital Hohhot, said sources with the
regional public security bureau.
Investigators said the company was building a chimney and, in
order to progress faster in the freezing cold, its management had
told workers to keep the concrete structure warm by wrapping it in
quilts and heating up stoves, which presumably caused the fire.
The investigation is continuing.
(Xinhua News Agency January 8, 2007)