According to police, four people, including a 71-year-old man, were killed after a fire broke out early Tuesday morning at an e-bike service shop on the first floor of a building near Manhattan’s Chinatown.
The fire, at 80 Madison St., started around 12:15 a.m. and spread through the store, which has residential apartments above, according to officials.
Six adults were taken in critical condition to three area hospitals, where four of them – two women and two men – died. Two women are in critical condition, police said
The cause of the fire is being investigated Tuesday morning, the New York Fire Department said.
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