Luoyang Christmas Day fire 25/12/2000
China tries 23 over Christmas disco blaze
BEIJING, China — Twenty-three people have gone on trial in China for their role in a disco fire last December in which 309 people died.
Christmas Day Fire in China Kills 309
B E I J I N G, Dec. 25, 2000 — A Christmas Day fire killed atleast 309 people, many of them revelers at a dance hall, inthe central Chinese city of Luoyang, Xinhua news agency andlocal sources said today.
Big Fire in Luoyang Cleaned Up, 309 Suffocate
All the 309 people killed in the fire which occurred Monday evening in central China’s Henan Province were suffocated, sources said Tuesday, December 26.
Christmas night fire kills 311 in central China
A Christmas night inferno in a four-storey building has claimed at least 311 lives in Luoyang, the capital of the central Chinese province of Henan. More than 50 other victims are being treated in hospital for burns and smoke inhalation.
12 Detained in China Christmas Fire
LUOYANG, China (AP) _ Police have detained at least 12 people for a deadly Christmas fire in central China, among them four welders whose apparently careless work started the blaze that killed 309 people, state-run media reported Thursday.
