4 Die in Fire That Began in E-Bike Store Near Chinatown

Four people were killed, including a 71-year-old man, after a fire tore through an e-bike service store on the first floor of a building near Manhattan’s Chinatown neighborhood early Tuesday morning, according to the police.

The fire, at 80 Madison St., started around 12:15 a.m. and spread through the store, which has residential apartments above it, according to officials.

Six adults were taken to three area hospitals in critical condition, where four of them — two women and two men — died. Two women were in critical condition, the police said

The cause of the fire was under investigation Tuesday morning, the New York Fire Department said.

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