The female suspect in the Kaohsiung building fire faces up to five years in prison if she is convicted of involuntary manslaughter, according to local prosecutors.

Preliminary investigation found the woman had lit mosquito repellent, but tossed it into a dustbin before dousing the flame, which led the building catch fire on Thursday morning.

All 46 people who died in the fire in Kaohsiung City, China's Taiwan region, have been identified as of Sunday morning, according to a CMG report. 

The massive blaze, which broke out in a 13-story, mixed-use building, also left 41 people injured.

The Chinese mainland will assist the families of the three people, who have died in the Kaohsiung building fire in handling the aftermath, said Ma Xiaoguang, spokesperson for the Taiwan Affairs Office of the State Council on Friday.

A day after the catastrophe in Kaohsiung in China's Taiwan killed 46 people, prosecutors filed a motion on Friday with a local court to detain a woman suspected of improperly using fire in the apartment.

The prosecutor initially determined that the fire was started from the suite where the woman was in, but the substance or cause of the fire is still under investigation.

Local authorities in Taiwan region identified two more victims from the mainland killed in the deadly fire in Kaohsiung City, making the death toll of people from the mainland to three.

One person killed in the deadly fire in southern Taiwan's Kaohsiung was from the Chinese mainland, CMG reporter confirmed with a local funeral parlor on Friday.

According to local media reports, the blaze, which took place at a 40-year-old commercial and residential building in the early hours of Thursday, has caused significant casualties, including 46 dead and 41 injured.

The local authorities have detained two suspects for links to the Kaohsiung building fire in China's Taiwan that killed 46 people, local media reported on Thursday. 

An investigation is also reportedly underway.

Forty-six people were killed and 41 injured in a fire in a residential building in Kaohsiung City, China's Taiwan. The blaze broke out on the first floor of a 13-story, mixed-use building at around 3 a.m. on Thursday. The fire was basically put out at around 7 a.m., and the cause is under investigation. A China Media Group reporter is reporting on-site.

The Taiwan Affairs Office of China's State Council and the Association for Relations Across the Taiwan Straits on Thursday sent condolences over a building blaze in Taiwan that killed at least 46 people. 

They expressed deep condolences over the fatalities and offered sincere sympathies to the injured compatriots and family members affected.

Meanwhile, the Red Cross Society of China later said it had also offered condolences and sympathy to the casualties via the Red Cross organization of Taiwan.

(Cover: Rescue team on site in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, China, on October 14, 2021. /CFP)

A total of 120 households live above the seventh floor of the 13-story Taiwan building, where a deadly fire broke out on Thursday, a China Media Group reporter learned. 

Most of the residents are elderly. 

Search and rescue operations between the seventh and eleventh floors have finished. 

The first five floors of the mixed-use building were for commercial use but were unoccupied.

The two underground floors of the building were also unused.

Dozens of people were killed when a massive fire broke out in an apartment in a mixed-use building in the port city of Kaohsiung in Taiwan, China on Thursday. The source of the fire is not yet known, but flames burned most intensely where a lot of clutter was piled up.

Forty-six people have died after a fire in a residential building in Kaohsiung City, southeast China's Taiwan region, local authorities said on Thursday.

The fire reportedly broke out around 2 a.m. on the first floor of a 13-story commercial and residential building that was built over 40 years ago, according to the local fire department. 

As of 3 p.m., 87 people had been taken to the hospital. Among them, 46 are confirmed dead, and 41 are injured.

The blaze was "extremely fierce" and destroyed many floors of the building, AP reported, citing a statement from the local fire department.

Arson has not been ruled out as the cause for the fire, and four people are currently being held by the police for questioning, according to a statement from Kaohsiung Mayor Chen Chi-mai.

A total of 159 firefighters were dispatched to the blaze, and the fire was extinguished at 7:17 a.m. 

Firefighters continue to comb the building for survivors and investigate the cause of the blaze.

(With input from agencies)