At least 10 people were killed and over a dozen were injured in a hotel in Nanchang, China's Jiangxi province, after a fire broke out in the multi-storey building on Saturday morning.
Video footage of the blaze circulating on social media shows a thick, dark smoke billowing from several floors of the HNA Platinum Mix Hotel.
The fire was first reported around 8 am from the second floor of the four-storey hotel building which also connects to a 24-storey apartment, the Global Times reported quoting state news agency Xinhua.
Latest media reports said the fire has been extinguished and rescue work has been nearly completed.
Initial investigation suggested the cause of the fire was tools used to cut construction materials. There was construction work going on in the hotel at the time of the fire which had trapped many people including the construction workers.
Chinese news agency Xinhua says that at least seven people have been detained in association with the incident.
#BREAKING Several trapped after fire breaks out in hotel in Nanchang, E China’s Jiangxi pic.twitter.com/NuN9Z95dNo
— CGTN (@CGTNOfficial) February 25, 2017
More details are awaited.
