Apartment Fire Kills 10 in China’s Xinjiang

What’s new: Ten people were killed and nine injured in a fire Thursday at a high-rise residential building in Northwest China’s Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, state media reported Friday.

The blaze broke out at around 8 p.m. in a community called Jixiangyuan in the regional capital Urumqi, CCTV reported. Fire fighters took around three hours to extinguish the flames.