{"id":62120,"date":"2024-02-24T11:35:39","date_gmt":"2024-02-24T02:35:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/feb\/24\/china-apartment-building-fire-deaths-nanjing-city"},"modified":"2024-02-24T11:35:39","modified_gmt":"2024-02-24T02:35:39","slug":"apartment-block-fire-in-chinas-nanjing-city-kills-at-least-15-officials-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=62120","title":{"rendered":"Apartment block fire in China\u2019s Nanjing city kills at least 15, officials say"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The blaze started on the first floor where electric bikes had been placed, according to officials, but the cause is still unknown<\/p>\n<p>At least 15 people were killed and 44 injured in a fire at a residential building in eastern China\u2019s Nanjing city, local authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>The fire broke out early Friday morning, officials said at a press conference, with a preliminary investigation suggesting the blaze started on the building\u2019s first floor, where electric bikes had been placed.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/feb\/24\/china-apartment-building-fire-deaths-nanjing-city\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The blaze started on the first floor where electric bikes had been placed, according to officials, but the cause is still unknownAt least 15 people were killed and 44 injured in a fire at a residential building in eastern China\u2019s Nanjing city, local au&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":206,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62120","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62120","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/206"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=62120"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62120\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62121,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62120\/revisions\/62121"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62120"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62120"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62120"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}