7 suspects caught in NE China hotel arson

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Police have caught all seven suspects who allegedly set a hotel in blaze that killed 10 and injured 35 in northeast China's Jilin Province early Sunday morning, local authorities said Tuesday.

The signboard of the Home Inns hotel, which was damaged by smoke in a fire on Sunday, in Tonghua, Jilin province. [Photo/Xinhua]

The signboard of the Home Inns hotel, which was damaged by smoke in a fire on Sunday, in Tonghua, Jilin province. [Photo/Xinhua]

Police are further investigating the arson case, the municipal publicity department of Tonghua said in a statement.

Sunday's fire broke out at about 3:30 a.m. at a building which houses a hotel of Home Inns, the country's largest budget hotel operator, in Tonghua City of Jilin Province.

The seven-storey building has a karaoke bar and a restaurant on the first and second floors and the Home Inns hotel is based on the floors above.

The ten, mostly from the fifth and seventh floors, were choked to death, according to police.

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