A restaurant fire in northeastern China killed 22 people on Tuesday, the official news agency Xinhua said, in the latest in a series of similar deadly incidents around the country.

Official reports say authorities in northern China have ruled out a gas explosion or arson as possible causes of a restaurant fire that killed 22 people and injured three others

Twenty-two people have died and three have been injured in a fire at a restaurant in China, according to local media reports. On Tuesday, April 29, at approximately 12:25 p.m. local time, the blaze broke out at a location in the city of Liaoyang in northeast China's Liaoning Province,