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China’s district courts have handed jail terms to two fire chiefs and two poultry farm bosses over their roles in a fatal fire in north-eastern China last year.
The blaze killed 121 people and injured 76 others in a June 2013 fire in Jilin province.
Survivors at the time described workers, mostly women, struggling through smoke and flames in the poultry processing plant to reach doors that turned out to be locked or blocked.
Jilin Baoyuanfeng Poultry chairman Jia Yushan was sentenced to nine years and fined 1 million yuan (£103,000) for not ensuring the working environment was safe.
Former general manager Zhang Yushen was sentenced to four years for installing substandard equipment.
Former local fire brigade chief Lyu Yandong and his deputy Liu Guicai were convicted of abuse of power and sentenced to prison terms of up to five-and-a-half years each.
