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Firefighters try to extinguish the blaze in the warehouse on the first floor of the building.
A woman cries for a family member who she feared was killed in the fire.
A fire broke out in a Nanshan District factory early yesterday, killing 15 people and seriously injuring three others.
The blaze broke out at about 4 a.m. in a waste materials warehouse on the first floor of a seven-story factory building, killing 15 at the scene, a press release from the Information Office of the Shenzhen Municipal Government said. The dead were not identified.
All the deceased were suspected to be employees of Feilong Scrap Company. They were illegally housed in the warehouse, which had been originally built for use as a factory.
Firemen extinguished the fire at 7 a.m. and rescued six from the building on Neihuan Road.
The three injured are in stable condition, according to Shekou People's Hospital yesterday.
Wang Yang, Guangdong Party chief, Governor Huang Huahua and Shenzhen Party chief Liu Yupu yesterday asked related departments to spare no effort in investigating the case and take measures to prevent similar accidents.
Shenzhen has set up a task force to handle the accident and Shenzhen Mayor Xu Zongheng asked police to find out the cause.
The fire destroyed about 1,500 square meters of the first floor, which was used to store foam products.
The smoke blackened the building's facade up to the seventh floor.
A woman who feared her son was one of the deceased asked to be let in to see her 18-year-old鈥檚 body later yesterday.
The woman, surnamed Lin, and her husband, who worked in Huizhou, received a phone call yesterday morning, saying their son might have been killed in the fire.
"Besides my son, a child of my sister and two children of my brother also lived in the building and I didn鈥檛 see them alive,"said Lin.
The building is managed by Shenzhen Zhong-qiao Property Management Company and officially rented out to Shenzhen Nanfang Metal company. Nanfang is said to have illegally sublet the property to Feilong Scrap Company in October last year. Feilong renovated the warehouse and housed workers inside.
Editor: Yan
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