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Six die in north China's bath center fire

Xinhua,December 11, 2017 Adjust font size:

SHIJIAZHUANG, Dec. 11 (Xinhua) -- Six people have been confirmed dead after a bath center in Handan City, north China's Hebei Province, caught fire on Sunday.

A government work group responsible for probing the fire said on Monday that two people died on the spot, when the fire broke out at 1:51 p.m. Sunday in the Gold Coast Bath Center in a rural township of the city.

The other four died in hospital.

Police have detained ten managing staff with the bath center for the investigation into the incident. Enditem