A fire raced through the top three floors of a hotel in southern China, killing 30 people and injuring 15 others, the official Xinhua News Agency reported Saturday.
The fire broke out at noon Friday in Shantou, a city in south China's Guangdong province, engulfing the top floors of the four-story hotel, the agency said.
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050611/ap_on_re_as/china_hotel_fireNormally in China, all exit doors are chained locked. Bars on all lower windows. No working extinguishing equipment. And you have to pay your bill before the management will let you flee the building, (no lie).
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