{{Investigators in China have accused a three-year-old girl of playing with a cigarette lighter and starting a workshop fire which killed 12 people, state media reported.}}<\/p>\n
“Many others” were injured in the blaze at a clothing workshop in Junbu in the southern province of Guangdong last week, the official Xinhua news agency said late on Wednesday.<\/p>\n
The workshop owner’s toddler ignited a stack of sponges while playing with a lighter, the report said, citing local investigators.<\/p>\n
The owner “turned himself in” after he was found to have been illegally using a residential building as a workshop, and had violated a range of fire safety laws including insufficient exits and a shortage of fire-extinguishing equipment, it said.<\/p>\n
Xinhua said the families of those killed in the fire had been compensated, without specifying the amount.<\/p>\n
Workplace safety standards can be poor in China, where fatal accidents happen regularly at mines and factories, with some blaming lax enforcement of rules due to corruption.<\/p>\n
A fire at a poultry plant in the north-eastern province of Jilin in June killed 120 and injured at least 70, in China’s deadliest blaze for over a decade.<\/p>\n
– AFP<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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