Supreme Procuratorate looks into fatal rest home fire
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Photo take on May 26, 2015 shows the accident site after a fire broke out in a rest home in Lushan County, Pingdingshan City, central China's Henan Province. Thirty-eight people were killed and six others injured in the fire which broke out at 7:55 p.m. Monday in an apartment building of the privately-owned Kangleyuan rest home. [Photo: Xinhua/Zhao Peng] |
China's top prosecutorial body has joined a central government team investigating this week's fatal fire in a nursing home in Henan which left 38 elderly people dead.
Prosecutors will be looking for any evidence of criminal activity involved in the deadly fire, including possible dereliction of duty or abuse of power.
China's safety watchdog says the preliminary investigation is pointing to the poor construction of the building itself, as well as lax safety management, as one of the reasons behind the high fatality rate at the nursing home in the city of Pingdingshan.
Poorly-designed fire exits and a slow emergency response by employees in the facility are also being probed.
It remains unclear at this point what exactly set the fire off in the first place.
Survivors say the fire, which broke out around 8 in the evening on Monday, moved very quickly through the nursing home.
A dozen people employed at the facility are being investigated in connection with the blaze.
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