A Chinese woman was sentenced to death Wednesday for arson which caused the death of three firefighters on New Year’s day this year, according to a court ruling.<\/p>\n
Li Lijuan, 49, a ,former employee of the Hangzhou Yusei Machinery Co Ltd set fire to a company warehouse at 2 a.m. Jan 1 when 193 workers were on duty, reported Xinhua citing the ruling of the Hangzhou Intermediate People’s Court in China’s Zhejiang province.<\/p>\n
Three firefighters died in the rescue and another three were injured. It took nearly 400 firefighters about nine hours to bring the fire under control.<\/p>\n
The fire caused direct losses of more than 60 million yuan ($9.76 million).<\/p>\n
Li started the fire in revenge after she was transferred to another post and had conflicts with her colleagues in December 2012.<\/p>\n
(Source: IANS)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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