Dramatic footage has emerged of a building in downtown Nanjing ablaze on Tuesday afternoon.
The fire broke out at around 3pm. No casualties have been reported as yet.
Flames ripped through one side of the 26-storey Lusheng Building, located on Hongwu Road.
#BREAKING Huge fire breaks out at a 26-storey skyscraper in downtown Nanjing, E China’s Jiangsu, Tuesday afternoonhttps://t.co/xe2zm2g2Ek
— People’s Daily, China (@PDChina) May 3, 2016
Local media reported that the fire was caused by a fault in the central air conditioning system on the sixth floor. Firefighters extinguished the blaze within the hour.
