Fire At China Care Home Kills 38 Peoples And 6 Are Injured

[AditiArora]

A fire at a care home in central China left 38 people dead and six injured. Two of the injured were in critical condition in hospital, the work safety bureau of the central province of Henan said in a statement on its website.Industrial accidents and fires are common in China, where enforcement of safety standards can be lax, with some property and business owners paying off corrupt officials to look the other way.

[PriyankaDhariwal]

A nine-year-old boy was detained in February after a shopping mall inferno killed 17 people in Huidong, in the southern province of Guangdong. Police said that blaze was "caused by a boy playing with fire at the mall".