Firemen enter the room of the dormitory that caught fire early Friday, Nov 14, 2008. Four college students died after jumping off the window of their dormitory on the sixth floor. [Photo: sh.eastday.com]

Four college students died after jumping off the window of their dormitory on the sixth floor at a Shanghai business school to escape fire Friday morning, Shanghai police said.

Fire broke out in a dormitory building of Shanghai Business School at around 6:10 a.m., a spokesman with the municipal public security bureau told Xinhua.

He gave no further details.

The school, located on West Zhongshan Road in downtown Shanghai, has more than 10,000 students.

(Xinhua News Agency November 14, 2008)