BEIJING (AP) -- Chinese state media say a fire in a workers' dormitory has killed 12 people and injured 24 others in northwestern China. The official Xinhua News Agency says the fire broke out early today in a dormitory for workers on a water diversion project in Shaanxi province. It did not report the cause. It says the workers are from a tunnel engineering subsidiary of China Railway 18th Bureau Group Co. Ltd.
A report on a news site run by the province, cnwest.com, says the dormitory was a three-story make-shift building.
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