A building fire that broke out on Monday night in east China's Shandong Province has killed 10 people, local government said Wednesday.

The fire broke out at 9:45 PM Monday on the second floor of a household electrical appliance store in the coastal city of Weihai in Shandong.

The flames quickly engulfed the four-floor building, all the window panes shattered and the ceilings of the top two floors collapsed, witnesses said. The fire was put out an hour later.

Four people were killed on the spot and six others died after failing to pull through emergency operations in hospital, according to the provincial work safety supervision bureau, who took charge of handling the aftermath of the blaze, and released no more details of the accident in the telephone interview Wednesday.

The cause of the accident is still under investigation.

(Xinhua News Agency October 13, 2005)