Six people were confirmed dead and 13 others injured in a plant fire that broke out in Yiwu City in east China's Zhejiang Province early Wednesday morning.

The fire broke out at 2:48 AM. Firemen who rushed to the rescue pulled out 14 injured people alive from the fire, and found five others dead.

Hospital sources said one of the injured died in hospital.

(Xinhua News Agency May 21, 2008)