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![A fire broke out in a warehouse in south China's Guangdong province on February 5, 2015. Over 17 people were killed in a fire in south China's Guangdong province, local authorities said on Friday. [Photo: Xinhua]](http://www.ecns.cn/2015/0206/201526101444.jpg "A fire broke out in a warehouse in south China's Guangdong province on February 5, 2015. Over 17 people were killed in a fire in south China's Guangdong province, local authorities said on Friday. [Photo: Xinhua]")
Over 17 people were killed in a fire in south China's Guangdong Province on Thursday, local authorities said.
The fire broke out at about 1:51 p.m. on Thursday in a warehouse on the fourth floor of a small merchandise wholesale market in Huidong County. It had been put under control by 7:35 p.m., the county government said in a statement.
Over 10 trapped in fire-ravaged China marketplace
More than ten people were believed to remain trapped in a wholesale market that had been ravaged by fire in south China's Guangdong Province on Thursday afternoon, witnesses said.
The fire broke out at about 1:51 p.m. in a warehouse on the top floor of a four-story small merchandise wholesale market in Huidong County, the county government said in a statement. (more)
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