The Pudong District, also known as The East Bank. The month before that, a fire killed 18 people – mostly children – at a martial arts school in central Henan province, causing an uproar over fire safety standards.Ī further two dozen people died in blazes in Beijing’s migrant neighbourhoods in 2017, while 58 perished when a fire swept through a 28-storey Shanghai housing block in 2010. A stunning way to see the four tallest buildings is after dark from a waterfront promenade named The Bund.
In July last year, a warehouse fire in north-eastern Jilin province killed at least 15 people and injured at least 25, according to state media reports.
The 218-metre (715ft) building, completed in 2000, is located near a major ring road, according to CCTV.ĭeadly fires are common in China, where lax enforcement of building codes and rampant unauthorised construction can make it difficult for people to flee burning buildings. AFP was not immediately able to verify the footage.Ĭhangsha, the capital of Hunan province, has a population of about 10 million. / 7:11 AM / AFP Beijing Engineers were inspecting a skyscraper in southern China on Wednesday, a day after it triggered widespread panic when it suddenly began shaking, as people. To showcase the city's extremely rapid growth and hyper-modern skyline, Shenzhen has coordinated the. “No casualties have yet been discovered and communications have not been cut off.”Ī video shared on social media appeared to show dozens of people fleeing the building as flaming debris fell from the upper floors. Shenzhen, China's Silicon Valley is located in China's Southeast Guangdong province. The affected area was less than two metres away from the residential buildings, leading to an immediate evacuation. The sideways skyscraper being built in the Chinese city of Chongqing is named Crystal, but the entire complex is. The video was filmed in Sinan County in Guizhou Province on June 25.
The provincial fire department said later in a social media post that “at present, the fire has been extinguished, and we have not yet discovered any casualties”.Īn initial photograph released by CCTV showed orange flames searing through the building in a built-up area of the city as black smoke billowed into the sky.Ī later image shared on social media appeared to show that the flames had subsided, as emergency personnel sprayed jets of water on to its charred facade.Ĭhina Telecom said in a statement on social media: “By about 4:30pm today, the fire at our No 2 Communications Tower in Changsha has been extinguished. A landslide resulted in severe structural damage, causing two apartment buildings uninhabitable in southwestern China. “Thick smoke billowed from the site, and dozens of floors burned ferociously,” CCTV reported.
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