Restaurant fire kills 22 in China's northeast: report

There were no details on the cause of Tuesday's fire.

China's President Xi Jinping called the fire "a deeply sobering lesson" and urged local officials to quickly determine its cause, treat the injured, and hold those responsible to account, state news agency Xinhua said.

Liaoyang, home to approximately 1.83 million people in its wider metropolitan area.

Gas leaks caused at least two high-profile explosions in residential areas last year, with a blast at a restaurant in China's northern province of Hebei killing two people and injuring 26 others in March and an explosion in a high rise building in southern Shenzhen in September killing one person.