Fire fighters search for survivors at the burnt poultry slaughterhouse owned by the Jilin Baoyuanfeng Poultry Company in Mishazi Township of Dehui City in northeast China's Jilin Province, June 3, 2013. The death toll from the fire has risen to 120 as of 8 p.m. on Monday. Search and rescue work is under way. (Xinhua/Wang Haofei)
Death toll in a fire at a poultry factory in northeast China's Jilin Province had risen to 120 as of 8 p.m. Monday, according to the rescue headquarters.
Seventy people were also injured in the fire, which broke out around 6:06 a.m. at a poultry processing workshop owned by the Jilin Baoyuanfeng Poultry Company in Mishazi Township in the city of Dehui, about 100 km northeast of the provincial capital Changchun.
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