<div class=newsTextDataWrapInner><p data-qa-component="item-headline" data-rc-highlight="headline">BEIJING (Nov 9): A fire on Sunday at a high-rise building in Taiyuan, the capital of China's northern province of Shanxi, killed at least 14 people, the official <em>Xinhua </em>news agency said on Monday.</p></div>

<div class=newsTextDataWrapInner><p>State media said 25 people were still in hospital, nine with serious injuries, citing authorities after the fire broke out on Sunday evening in the building on a busy downtown main road.</p></div>

<div class=newsTextDataWrapInner><p>Smoke billowed over the 40-storey structure as firefighters poised on cranes outside fought flames that spread upward from a lower annex, video images circulated online and verified by <em>Reuters</em> showed.</p></div><div class=inPageAd id=div-gpt-ad-inpage></div>

<div class=newsTextDataWrapInner><p>The fire appears to have started around the fourth floor of the annex before spreading to the eighth and ninth floors, which house a hotel, the state broadcaster said.</p></div>

<div class=newsTextDataWrapInner><p>The entire building is a mixed-use commercial and residential property with several hotels, short-term rental apartments, smaller venues, as well as tutoring centres, the report said.</p></div>

<div class=newsTextDataWrapInner><p>The fire was put out after about two hours and authorities said rescue operations wrapped up by 8:30p on Sunday night, with 38 people taken to hospital.</p></div>

<div class=newsTextDataWrapInner><p>Authorities are investigating the cause of the fire in the northern manufacturing hub, state media added.</p></div>

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