A fire in an apartment building in northwestern China's Xinjiang region killed 10 people and injured nine, authorities said on Friday.
Flames spread upward from the 15th floor to the 17th floor, with smoke billowing up to the 21st floor, according to multiple state media reports. The blaze took around three hours to extinguish.
"She was a wonderful woman, always thinking of her children and how to treat and educate them well," Abdulhafız Muhammed Emin said, sobbing during a phone interview."My heart is really broken, I cannot bare it." Urumqi mayor Memtimin Qadir apologized to the city's residents during a press conference late Saturday and announced the formation of a government team to investigate the fire.
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