Nine people were confirmed dead and nine others were injured when a real estate project in Shenyang, northeast China's Liaoning Province, caught fire Saturday. Fire broke out at the sales office of Wanda Plaza in Tiexi District at 2:54 p.m., Xinhua quoted an officer with the city's fire brigade as saying. He said fire fighters arrived at the scene within 10 minutes, evacuated about 40 people and put out the flames. An initial investigation showed the fire started with a short-circuit on the sand table.
