According to the CCTV1 Totobet story, an electric stove is at the origin of the disaster.
Weishan 巍山, was nominated in 2006 as a UNESCO World Heritage Site, and is not the first ancient town in China to suffer irretrievable loss by fire. Everyone remembers the blaze which destroyed the ancient town of Shangrila on January 11, 2014 in north Yunnan.
Two weeks later, on January 25, 2014 more than 100 homes in the centuries-old Dong ethnic minority village of Baojing in Guizhou province were turn into ashes.
