(Nanjing / Suzhou Comprehensive News) A fire in a hotel in Suzhou on Thursday (February 16) caused a fire on Thursday (February 16), which has killed six people and injured 28 people.

Comprehensive Xinhua News Agency and the Beijing News reported that according to the report of Xiangcheng District Government of Suzhou City, Jiangsu Province, around 6 am on Thursday, a fire occurred in Changhong Hotel, Weitang Town, Xiangcheng District, Suzhou City.It was extinguished for about an hour, the on -site search and rescue had been completed, and the reason for the fire was under investigation.The accident has killed six people and injured 28 people, and two of them were seriously injured.

Changhong Hotel opened in 2009 and renovated in 2021. There are 28 guest rooms.A boss who has run the hotel revealed that he took over the hotel in 2016. The hotel has a total of four floors. On the first floor is the lobby, and the two -story room resident.

He said: "When I took it at the time, the facilities in the hotel were a bit old. We simply renovated, and then there was no business to transfer it to the next family. After that, the boss who took over hundreds of thousands of yuan spent hundreds of thousands of yuan.(RMB, about S $ 20,000 in RMB 2,000) Decoration, and no business, transfer it to the current boss. "

Mr. Dai, who runs the shop opposite the hotel, said that when the fire occurred, some guests in the hotel jumped off the building, some were hanging on the air conditioner, and some people rescued by the curtains.

The emergency staff of the Third People's Hospital of Xiangcheng District said that many fire injuries were treated on Thursday morning, and there were minor injuries and serious injuries.