China building blaze: Fire in residential house kills 22, injures three in Jiangsu province

Beijing: At least 22 people were killed when a house in China’s eastern Jiangsu province caught fire on Sunday, the official Xinhua news agency cited local authorities as saying. The fire broke out before dawn at a two-storey residential house in Yushan town in Changshu city, Xinhua said. Three were injured. The blaze has been put out, and investigation into the cause is under way, it said.