A short circuit has been blamed for a deadly hotel fire that had killed 20 people in northeast China's Heilongjiang Province, investigators said Monday.
At around 4 a.m. on Aug. 25, a fan short-circuited setting nearby plastic ornaments on fire at the Beilong Hot Spring Leisure Hotel in Harbin, the provincial capital, according to the investigation team.
All the victims of the fire have been identified.
The legal representative of the hotel is under criminal detention while two hotel managers are under investigation.
The city's disciplinary authorities are further investigating the case to find any malfeasance behind it.
