In July last year, a warehouse fire in north-eastern Jilin province killed at least 15 people and injured at least 25, according to state media reports. Re: Shaking China skyscraper sends shoppers fleeing (with video) Post by Arget » Wed 11:41 pm Freightdog wrote: Wed 4:07 pm Of course, we’d be horrified. A skyscraper of more than 70 storeys has been evacuated after it started to shake, sending shoppers scrambling for safety in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen. The SEG Plaza started to sway at 1pm on Tuesday in Shenzhen, China. The 218-metre (715ft) building, completed in 2000, is located near a major ring road, according to CCTV.ĭeadly fires are common in China, where lax enforcement of building codes and rampant unauthorised construction can make it difficult for people to flee burning buildings. Panic in China as 980ft skyscraper mysteriously begins to shake despite NO earthquakes in the area - sending pedestrians fleeing. AFP was not immediately able to verify the footage.Ĭhangsha, the capital of Hunan province, has a population of about 10 million. Hundreds of shoppers were seen fleeing the base of a 1,000-foot skyscraper in southern China on Tuesday, after the 72-floor building began shaking and swaying. Beijing Engineers were inspecting a skyscraper in southern China on Wednesday, a day after it triggered widespread panic when it suddenly began shaking, as.
“No casualties have yet been discovered and communications have not been cut off.”Ī video shared on social media appeared to show dozens of people fleeing the building as flaming debris fell from the upper floors. The provincial fire department said later in a social media post that “at present, the fire has been extinguished, and we have not yet discovered any casualties”.Īn initial photograph released by CCTV showed orange flames searing through the building in a built-up area of the city as black smoke billowed into the sky.Ī later image shared on social media appeared to show that the flames had subsided, as emergency personnel sprayed jets of water on to its charred facade.Ĭhina Telecom said in a statement on social media: “By about 4:30pm today, the fire at our No 2 Communications Tower in Changsha has been extinguished. But even the Abu Simbel cant beat the structural moving record made by a building in China even though Abu Simbel is more than twice as heavy. “Thick smoke billowed from the site, and dozens of floors burned ferociously,” CCTV reported. Thousands of shoppers in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen fled the vicinity of a 957-foot (291-meter) skyscraper Tuesday, after it inexplicably began swaying.
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