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Timeline: China's major fires since 1994

(China Daily)

08:41, June 04, 2013

A woman who escaped the fire prays for her colleagues occurred in a slaughterhouse owned by the Jilin Baoyuanfeng Poultry Company in Mishazi Township of Dehui City, northeast China's Jilin Province, June 3, 2013. . Provided to China Daily

>> Speical Coverage: Scores Killed in Massive Poultry Plant Fire

• Nov 5, 2010

A blaze erupts at a shopping mall in Jilin city, Jilin province, due to a short circuit in electrical wiring. Nineteen people die.

• Nov 15, 2010

A fire caused by soldering equipment at a residential building in Shanghai's Jing'an district kills 58.

• Sept 20, 2008

A blaze started when people set off fireworks on stage at a Shenzhen club in Guangdong province, killing 43.

• Dec 15, 2005

A fire sparked by an electrical short circuit at a power substation in Liaoyuan, Jilin province, kills 39.

• June 10, 2005

An electrical short circuit starts a fire at a hotel in Shantou, Guangdong province, killing 31.

• Feb 15, 2004

A discarded cigarette starts a blaze in a shopping mall in Jilin city, Jilin province, killing 54.

• Feb 2, 2003

A hotel in Harbin, capital of Heilongjiang province, catches fire, leaving 33 dead. The cause was never established.

• June 16, 2002

A 14-year-old boy starts a fire at an Internet cafe in Beijing's Haidian district that claims the lives of 25 teenagers.

• Dec 8, 1994

A fire started by a stage lamp in a theater in Karamay, the Xinjiang Uygur autonomous region, kills 325 people, including 288 students.

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