A fire has torn through a warehouse of supermarket chain PX Mart in Taichung. The blaze has killed at least four people with many more still unaccounted for. The cause of the fire is unknown but firefighters say it spread quickly through the facility because it was stacked full of flammable polystyrene material.
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00:00In some breaking news, at least three people are dead after a fire ripped through a supermarket
00:04warehouse in central Taiwan. 19 people have been rescued, while many more are still missing.
00:10Firefighters say the flames spread quickly at the PXMark facility because it was packed with
00:16highly flammable polystyrene boards. The company says the warehouse was new and still under
00:21construction. Taiwan's factories have recently been criticized for flouting fire safety regulations
00:27after a wave of protests by firefighters.