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Most victims in south China bar fire identified
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2005-12-29 15:39
Most of the 26 victims who died in a fire at a bar in south China's Guangdong
Province on Christmas Day have been identified, the local police said on
Thursday.
By Thursday, 22 dead bodies have been identified by their family members and
four remained unidentified, said a spokesman with the public security bureau in
Zhongshan.
He said the bureau is carrying out DNA tests to further identify the bodies.
The fire broke out Sunday night at an illegally-operated bar attached to
Tandao Western Restaurant in Tanzhou Township of Zhongshan City. Twenty-six
people died and 11 others were injured.
Among the dead were 21 men and five women, all aged between 16 and 29.
Twenty-two of them were natives of Guangdong Province, two were from neighboring
Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, one from central China's Hunan Province and
one from Macao.
The 11 injured are under treatment at the Zhongshan People's Hospital and two
other leading hospitals in the provincial capital Guangzhou.
Bar owners were detained shortly after the accident.
Investigation showed the bar was not equipped with any fire extinguishing
devices and the safety exit was extremely narrow, making it difficult for the
people inside to evacuate, said a government official.
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