According to preliminary information, the cause of the fire could be non-compliance with the rules for storage of recyclable materials in specially designated places. Firefighters are considering the version of unintentional fire in one of the station's sorting blocks. As a result of the fire, nine people were killed, another employee of the station was hospitalized, he had a second degree of burns.

At the scene continue to work rescuers, continues to search for victims.

Recall that recently a similar incident occurred on the neighboring island of Taiwan. The fire occurred at the refinery of the Chinese National Oil and Gas Corporation. According to the vice-president of the corporation Enna Biha, this incident will affect the daily production of 30 thousand barrels of diesel fuel, but Kaohsiung will compensate for any shortcoming in deliveries to the local market.

As reported in the "Ur-Inform", earlier in the city of Tianjin in northern China, there was a fire in the skyscraper.