China, January 03: Five people have been killed and seven injured after leaping from a fifth-storey rooftop in southwest China to escape a fire engulfing the building, state media reports.
The inferno took hold in the building in Guizhou province in the early hours of this morning, after a shop on the ground floor caught fire, Xinhua news agency reported.
One other person inside the building was killed in the blaze, it said.
The seven injured were being treated in a local hospital and all were expected to survive, the report said.
The cause of the blaze was under investigation, it added.
—Agencies