{"id":7494,"date":"2023-11-16T10:29:01","date_gmt":"2023-11-16T05:29:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/?p=7494"},"modified":"2023-11-16T10:29:02","modified_gmt":"2023-11-16T05:29:02","slug":"fire-in-chinese-coal-firms-office-kills-19-state-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/asia\/fire-in-chinese-coal-firms-office-kills-19-state-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire in Chinese coal firm&#8217;s office kills 19 &#8211; state media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BEIJING, Nov 16 (Reuters) &#8211; The death toll has risen to 19 from a fire at a coal company&#8217;s office building in China&#8217;s northern Shanxi province, Chinese state media said on Thursday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The fire broke out at 6:50 a.m. at the four-story Yongju Coal Industry Joint Building in China&#8217;s top coal-producing hub of Shanxi. State broadcaster China Central Television initially reported the fire killed 11 and injured at least 51.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The cause of the fire was still under investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Calls to Yongju Coal Industry were not answered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>China&#8217;s coal producers are under scrutiny for a series of accidents in mines in recent months, which has weighed on production as mines stop work for&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/world\/china\/china-stops-work-more-coal-mines-shaanxi-over-safety-issues-2023-09-01\/\">safety inspections<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BEIJING, Nov 16 (Reuters) &#8211; The death toll has risen to 19 from a fire at a coal company&#8217;s office building in China&#8217;s northern Shanxi province, Chinese state media said on Thursday. The fire broke out at 6:50 a.m. at the four-story Yongju Coal Industry Joint Building in China&#8217;s top coal-producing hub of Shanxi. State [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":7495,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[80,81,396],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-asia","category-china","category-latest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7494"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7494"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7494\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7495"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.asiafreepress.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}