BEIJING, Dec 26 (AFP): A Christmas Day fire in a bar in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong killed 25 people and left 11 others injured, the state-run Xinhua news agency reported Monday. The fire occurred around 11pm (1500 GMT) Sunday night in Tanzhou township in the prosperous city of Zhongshan, some 100 kilometres (60 miles) away from Hong Kong, the agency said in a short dispatch. The cause of the fire was being investigated, it said, without elaborating.
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