{"id":20772,"date":"2025-04-09T13:00:53","date_gmt":"2025-04-09T07:15:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=20772"},"modified":"2025-04-09T13:00:53","modified_gmt":"2025-04-09T07:15:53","slug":"fire-in-northern-china-nursing-home-kills-20-state-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/fire-in-northern-china-nursing-home-kills-20-state-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire in northern China nursing home kills 20: state media"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>Twenty people have died in a fire at a nursing home in northern China&#8217;s Hebei province, Beijing&#8217;s state news agency Xinhua said Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The fire broke out around 9:00 pm (1300 GMT) Tuesday at the nursing home in Longhua County, roughly 180 kilometres (112 miles) northeast of the capital Beijing.<\/p>\n<p>Twenty people were confirmed dead by 3:00 am Wednesday, Xinhua reported.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Other elderly people in the nursing home have been transferred to nearby hospitals for further observation and treatment,&#8221; the state news agency said.<\/p>\n<p>The cause of the blaze is under investigation, it said.<\/p>\n<p>An individual responsible for the nursing home has been detained by police, the county government said.<\/p>\n<p>Deadly fires are relatively common in China due to lax building codes and an often slipshod approach to workplace safety.<\/p>\n<p>In January, a fire at a vegetable market in Zhangjiakou city, northwest of Beijing, killed eight people and injured 15.<\/p>\n<p>A month before that, nine people died in a fire at a construction site in eastern China&#8217;s Rongcheng city.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twenty people have died in a fire at a nursing home in northern China&#8217;s Hebei province, Beijing&#8217;s state news agency Xinhua said Wednesday. The fire broke out around 9:00 pm (1300 GMT) Tuesday at the nursing home in Longhua County, roughly 180 kilometres (112 miles) northeast of the capital Beijing. Twenty people were confirmed dead [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20773,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20772"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20772"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20772\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20774,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20772\/revisions\/20774"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}