{"id":38739,"date":"2025-12-28T23:11:19","date_gmt":"2025-12-28T17:26:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=38739"},"modified":"2025-12-28T23:11:19","modified_gmt":"2025-12-28T17:26:19","slug":"40-public-officers-deemed-accountable-for-fatal-restaurant-fire-in-ne-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/40-public-officers-deemed-accountable-for-fatal-restaurant-fire-in-ne-china\/","title":{"rendered":"40 public officers deemed accountable for fatal restaurant fire in NE China"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>The emergency management authorities of northeast China&#8217;s Liaoning Province on Sunday published an official investigation report into a restaurant fire that killed 22 people and injured three others on April 29 in the city of Liaoyang.<\/p>\n<p>The report recommends referring eight individuals, including the restaurant&#8217;s operators, to judicial authorities for criminal investigation. Additionally, a total of 40 public officers deemed responsible for the tragedy are facing disciplinary and legal scrutiny.<\/p>\n<p>The report states that the blaze was a major workplace safety incident caused by multiple failures. Key factors included the restaurant&#8217;s evasion of its primary safety responsibilities, unauthorized renovation work and the expansion of its exterior facade using flammable aluminum-plastic panels.<\/p>\n<p>The improper storage of combustible waste, a customer discarding an unextinguished cigarette butt, the use of substandard exterior insulation materials, malfunctioning firefighting equipment, an ineffective initial response, and inadequate oversight by local authorities are also to blame.<\/p>\n<p>According to the investigation, the fire started when a patron surnamed Wang discarded a lit cigarette butt, which was fanned by the wind and then rolled into an opening, igniting stacked cardboard and other waste inside. The fire spread rapidly via the combustible aluminum-plastic facade panels and the polystyrene insulation on the building&#8217;s exterior.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The emergency management authorities of northeast China&#8217;s Liaoning Province on Sunday published an official investigation report into a restaurant fire that killed 22 people and injured three others on April 29 in the city of Liaoyang. The report recommends referring eight individuals, including the restaurant&#8217;s operators, to judicial authorities for criminal investigation. Additionally, a total [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":38740,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-38739","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\/38739"}],"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=38739"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38739\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38741,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/38739\/revisions\/38741"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38740"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=38739"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=38739"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=38739"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}