Firefighters Tackle Massive Blaze At Tobacco Plant

(AP) Firefighters fought a massive inferno at a tobacco factory in Nanning City, southern China, on Wednesday night.
According to local broadcaster CCTV, the fire broke out shortly after midnight at the China Tobacco Guangxi Industrial Company’s factory.
Firefighters arrived within minutes, but the fire had already engulfed the factory because of its highly flammable frame and protective netting around its pipe tobacco processing facility which was under construction. Continued