18 killed, 16 injured in fire at China martial arts school

BEIJING: At least 18 people were killed and 16 injured when a fire broke out at a martial arts school in central China in the early hours of Friday , according to the local government.

Four local officials including the county party secretary were fired over the incident, reported the Henan Daily, a local state-backed newspaper, on Saturday.There were 34 boarding students on the premises when the fire broke out, according to government staff quoted by Beijing Toutiao News.Those hurt - four of whom had severe injuries - were rushed to a local hospital, where an unnamed doctor told local media they were"doing everything they could" to save them.

Among the largest is the famous Shaolin Martial Arts School, which has hundreds of teachers and tens of thousands of students, according to its website. Social media users started to call for better fire safety standards online as a hashtag for the fire quickly garnered more than 1.5 million views.More than two dozen people were killed in two blazes in Beijing's migrant neighbourhoods in 2017.

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