Firefighters break the exterior wall to clear the smoke inside the building after a fire broke out at a wholesale market building in Huidong county

Firefighters break the exterior wall to clear the smoke inside the building after a fire broke out at a wholesale market building in Huidong county

Firefighters break the exterior wall to clear the smoke inside the building after a fire broke out at a wholesale market building in Huidong county, Guangdong province February 6, 2015. The fire at the warehouse in China has killed at least 17 people, state news agency Xinhua said on Friday, the latest disaster in a country with a poor record on work safety. The fire broke out at on Thursday afternoon on the fourth floor of a small wholesale market in Huidong county in the southern province of Guangdong, the report said. It took more than six hours for firefighters to bring the blaze under control, Xinhua added. It did not provide further details. Picture taken with a mobile phone fitted with a clip-on fisheye lens. REUTERS/Stringer (CHINA – Tags: DISASTER SOCIETY) CHINA OUT. NO COMMERCIAL OR EDITORIAL SALES IN CHINA