【BBC 20150206】广东惠州九岁男童玩火引发火灾

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【原文标题】China’s deadly shopping blaze ‘started by boy, nine”

【中文标题】广东惠州九岁男童玩火引发火灾

【文章来源】BBC

【文章链接】http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-31159879

A blaze at a shopping centre that killed 17 people was started by a nine-year-old boy "playing with a lighter", Chinese police said in a statement.

The inferno broke out on the fourth floor of the building in Huizhou in Guangdong province on Thursday afternoon.

据广东警方称，惠州一个购物广场内的火灾导致17人死亡。火灾由一名9岁男童玩打火机引发，大火瞬间蔓延整个建筑的四楼。

The young suspect has been detained for questioning.

目前警方正对这位男童进行调查。

Rescue efforts took a number of hours, with four firefighters injured, one of them seriously.

火灾发生后消防队员积极展开消防工作，救火历时数小时，有四名消防官兵受伤，其中一名伤势严重。

Some 270 firefighters and 45 fire engines were needed to extinguish the flames, police said.

据警方交代，参与抢救的消防队员有270人，出动的消防车也达到了45辆。

Footage from the scene showed an excavator dismantling one wall of the building to allow trapped people to escape.

有关现场的视频显示，建筑墙体需要被挖穿才能创造出救生通道供被困人员逃跑。

Medical personnel wait next to stretchers as people are rescued from the building

医护人员在担架旁守候着火灾现场

Police said the flames quickly spread to the whole floor.

警方称火势很快蔓延到整个楼层。

Nine managers at the mall were also detained by the authorities.

目前商场的9名管理人员已被警方控制。

China has a dismal industrial safety record as some property and business owners evade regulations to save money and pay off corrupt officials to look the other way.

中国工业安全存在隐患，一些房地产商和企业贿赂官员为了节约成本不惜违规经营、贿赂官员逃过检查。

A fire at a poultry plant in the north-east of the country killed 119 people in 2013.

2013年东北某禽业公司发生火灾导致119人死亡。

Reports at the time said that managers had locked doors inside the factory to prevent workers from going to the toilet, leading to the high death toll.

报告称当时管理人员将车间门关闭，防止工人走去厕所，这是死亡人数之多的原因。

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