Lam Yik Fei/Getty ImagesTAIPEI, Taiwan — At least 46 people were killed and dozens of others injured after a fire broke out early Thursday at a large commercial and residential building in southern Taiwan that had badly deteriorated in recent years, according to local officials and news reports.台湾台北——根据当地官员和新闻报道,周四凌晨,台湾南部一座年久失修的大型商业和住宅建筑发生火灾,造成至少46人死亡,数十人受伤。
At least 41 other people were being treated for injuries, said local fire officials in Kaohsiung, the main port city in Taiwan, where the fire occurred. The cause of the blaze remains under investigation, said Lee Ching-hsiu, the city’s fire chief.火灾发生在台湾主要港口城市高雄,当地消防官员称,至少还有41人受伤并正在接受治疗。
Lam Yik Fei/Getty ImagesBuilt in the 1980s, the 13-story building is near the Love River in central Kaohsiung, Taiwan’s third-biggest city. Conditions in the once-prosperous building began to deteriorate after a fire broke out in the building in 1999, according to local reports. While no one died in that fire, the building was partly abandoned, and squatters and gamblers began to move in. Among local residents, it became known as “Kaohsiung’s No. 1 ghost building.”这幢13层高的大楼建于上世纪80年代,位于台湾第三大城市高雄中心地带的爱河附近 ... 阅读全文