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Fire in eastern China kills 22, injures three: Xinhua

The fire broke out before dawn at a two-storey residential house in Yushan town in Changshu city, Xinhua said. 

Beijing: At least 22 people were killed when a house in China's eastern Jiangsu province caught fire on Sunday, the official Xinhua news agency cited local authorities as saying.

The fire broke out before dawn at a two-storey residential house in Yushan town in Changshu city, Xinhua said. 

Three were injured. The blaze has been put out, and investigation into the cause is under way, it said.