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Updated: Jul 16, 2017 12:24 IST

A pre-dawn fire in a two-storey house in eastern China killed 22 people and injured three on Sunday.

The city of Changshu in Jiangsu province, about 80 km northwest of Shanghai, said on Sunday in a brief social media post that the fire broke out around 4.30 am. The post said authorities have put out the fire and finished cleaning the scene.

Twenty two people died in a house #fire in East China's Jiangsu province early Sunday morning. https://t.co/ZICgzoM1NW pic.twitter.com/26gjkdiR2X — China Daily (@ChinaDailyUSA) 16 July 2017

The cause remains under investigation. It is not clear how many residents survived.

Citing unnamed sources, an earlier report by the official Xinhua news agency said more than 20 people lived in the house.