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An investigation was under way Wednesday after a fire ripped through a hospital in China's capital Beijing, killing 21 people, state media reported. Emergency response teams first received word just before 1 pm (0500 GMT) Tuesday that a fire had broken out at the Beijing Changfeng Hospital in the capital city's Fengtai District, the Communist Party-run Beijing Daily said. The fire was extinguished about half an hour later and rescue efforts continued for another two hours, by which time 71 patients had been evacuated to another location. Social media users posted videos on Tuesday of people sitting on external air conditioning units, while others clinging to ropes jumped from the building. The death toll stood at 21 as of Wednesday morning, the newspaper said. No further details were available on the number of injuries suffered in the fire or the condition of the victims. Top city officials visited the hospital shortly after the fire, with Beijing party secretary Yin Li vowing to "quickly identify the cause of the accident and hold the relevant responsible persons accountable", according to the Beijing Daily. AFP journalists on Wednesday saw dozens of onlookers outside the entrance to the hospital, where a large number of police officers were stationed, discouraging people from taking photos. No visible damage to the hospital's buildings was visible from the entrance to the compound. It was not immediately clear if all the occupants of the hospital had been found and evacuated from the fire, which was in the east building of the private hospital's inpatient department. The deaths were confirmed after the victims were taken to another unidentified hospital for emergency treatment, the Beijing Daily report said. Many family members have lost contact with patients, with the missing mostly older people with mobility problems, the China Youth Daily said in a separate report on Wednesday. Beijing Changfeng Hospital is located in the capital's western urban area, about 25 minutes by car from Tiananmen Square. Deadly fires are common in China due to weak safety standards and lax enforcement. Ten people died in an apartment block blaze in China's northwestern Xinjiang in November, sparking protests against Covid-19 lockdowns blamed for hindering rescue efforts. And 38 people were killed in a fire at a factory in central China, also in November, with authorities blaming workers for illegal welding. © Copyright AFP 2023. All rights reserved. IBT Fast Start - Let the best of International News come to you
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(Bloomberg) -- Chinese authorities are censoring online posts about a fire that killed 21 people at a hospital in the heart of Beijing, as public anger mounts over the death toll and initial attempts to clamp down on information about the incident. The deadly blaze erupted at the Beijing Changfeng Hospital’s inpatient department Tuesday, according to a late evening report published by state media outlet Xinhua News Agency. Firefighters were notified of the fire at 12:57 p.m. local time and put it out by 1:33 p.m., Xinhua said. Another 71 patients were evacuated and transferred to other facilities, the report said, citing the local fire department. Footage and photos of the fire quickly spread on Chinese social media, with one showing patients climbing out of the smoking building with improvised ropes made from bed sheets. But they were quickly scrubbed on platforms including the Twitter-like Weibo and WeChat, a ubiquitous messaging app. Public anger quickly mounted over how such a tragedy had taken place — and at a location less than seven miles away from Tiananmen Square — along with a dearth of media reports about the events. Authorities said Tuesday the cause of the incident was being investigated. Multiple calls to the hospital Wednesday were unanswered, while its website and that of its parent company, Beijing Changfeng Hospital Co., appeared to be down. A filing submitted Wednesday by China Securities Co., the company’s broker-dealer on the National Equities Exchange and Quotations — an over-the-counter marketplace for small firms where it’s listed — said it has failed to establish contact with relevant personnel at the organization after the blaze. ‘Difficult to Understand’
“It is really difficult to understand, hospitals have relatively stronger safety management and precautionary measures, and Beijing is our country’s first-tier city, how could such a large-scale fire lead to so many deaths?” read one censored post on dissident-run tracking site Freeweibo.com, which reposts items that have been deleted on Weibo. The user said the fire had echoes of a deadly blaze in Xinjiang last year that spurred public outcry over the country’s stringent Covid Zero policy, with online posts at the time questioning whether lockdowns had delayed rescue efforts. Even Hu Xijin, the former editor-in-chief of the Communist Party-backed Global Times, was caught in the censorship dragnet. A Weibo post from Hu, which called for authorities to “trust the public” with information on the incident and criticized the removal of other posts, was itself taken down after a brief time online. A later post from Hu on Weibo remained online, expressing shock at the fire and calling for more information on the incident to be disclosed. By evening, restrictions on information appeared to be easing. State media outlets began publishing reports on the fire around 9 p.m. after online users questioned why the topic wasn’t appearing on trending search lists, along with a lengthy delay in reporting the number of deaths. “Topics that are not conducive to harmony cannot appear on the hot search list,” a user wrote on Weibo, in a post that was later taken down. A hashtag created to share information about the fire, #Fire at Beijing Changfeng Hospital that killed 21, did not reflect any data on Weibo as of Wednesday morning — though a differently-worded hashtag created later that didn’t state the hospital’s name showed over 6.2 million views of the topic. --With assistance from Yanping Li, Jessica Sui and Dong Lyu. ©2023 Bloomberg L.P.

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