¡¡GUANGZHOU, Feb. 29 (Xinhua)– Five people died in a hardware store fire in the southern province of Guangdong on Friday morning, local authorities said.

    The fire broke out in the store in the Liwan district of Guangzhou, the provincial capital. Firemen got an emergency call at around 4:00 a.m. and put out the fire an hour later, the municipal fire fighting department said on Friday.

    The cause of the accident is under investigation.