Four killed in China hotel fire

Four people died and 14 were injured in a fire at a hotel in northern China’s Heilongjiang Province.

The fire broke out around 9:30 this morning, local time, at Julongyuan Hotel in Yanshou County, said the provincial fire department.

Firemen battled for more than an hour to extinguish the flames and a large section of the hotel was destroyed.

Three of the injured remain in a critical condition.

The owner of the hotel has been taken into police custody.