BEIJING: Police have arrested a storekeeper who dropped a cigarette butt that is believed to have started a fire in which 53 people died in northeastern China's Jilin city, the investigation team said yesterday.
Authorities believe the cigarette butt dropped by Yu Hongxin, 35, ignited inflammable goods in a storeroom at the shopping centre on Sunday, the official news agency Xinhua reported.
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