State broadcaster CCTV said that dozens of floors of the 715-foot-tall China Telecom building « burned with great intensity. »
A skyscraper in southern China caught fire on Friday, with social-media videos showing dozens of floors of the multistory tower block engulfed in flames, with authorities saying that no casualties had yet been found.
In downtown Changsha, capital of the Hunan province and a city of more than 10 million people, a huge plume of black smoke smothered the blue skyline, and large items and bits of debris were seen falling off the 42-floor building.
State broadcaster CCTV said that dozens of storeys of the 715-foot-tall China Telecom building « burned with great intensity. »
A video on social media appeared to show scores of people fleeing the state-owned company building as the fire engulfed the skyscraper.
