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Two teenagers die in fire on Christmas Eve in C.Beijing
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2005-12-26 11:28

Two high-school students were confirmed dead in a fire during the night of Christmas Eve in Beijing, local police said on Monday morning.

At around 7:00 Sunday morning, an apartment building caught fire at the Maliandao residential quarters along a business center of Xuanwu District, central Beijing, in which four high-school students, aged 16 to 17, got together for the Christmas Eve. Two of the four were killed by the blaze, and one surnamed Zheng, who fled to the top of the six-story building for help, with the other surnamed Lu were rescued by local police.

The fire was caused possibly by the overheating of a video gameplayer, and it real cause is still being investigated.



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