Property and business interruption

21.2, hospital fire deaths, charge

China: police charged four people with selling low-quality electrical cables that sparked a fire in a hospital in December which killed 39 people. Patients were forced to jump out of windows to escape the blaze at City Central Hospital in Liaoyuan city in north-east Jilin province. The owner of the store which sold the cables to the hospital, two company managers and another man involved in the sale were among 11 people detained in connection with the fire. The hospital’s president and vice director have also been detained.