Government officials and local police were among the 309 people killed in a Christmas night fire in a nightclub in central China.
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Included among the unspecified number of officials were three Luoyang policemen and a member of the law commitee of the Luoyang People's Congress, the Beijing
Youth Daily
reported.
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Such connections had allowed the unlicenced fourth floor club to operate for eight years without interference, it added.
The police were also believed to be the owners of four handguns found by firemen in the nightclub after the deadly blaze, the paper said.
AFP