Explosion rocks chemical plant in eastern China killing 1
An explosion has rocked a chemical plant in the eastern Chinese province of Shandong, China’s official Xinhua news agency says, a mere ten days after explosions at a warehouse storing chemicals in northeast China.
The blast ripped through the plant on Saturday night and caused a fire, the agency reported, adding that several fire crews have been dispatched to the area to control the spread of the flames.
According to early reports by state media, the explosion has killed one person and injured nine people with 150 firefighters battling the resulting blaze.
On August 12, another major explosion took place in a warehouse in the northeastern Chinese city of Tianjin, leaving 121 people dead, including 67 firefighters and seven policemen. Another 54 people still remain missing.
The country’s local officials also announced that 640 people are still hospitalized, with 54 of them being in critical condition.
Earlier in the day, Tianjin police stated that DNA tests had been conducted on the 121 corpses recovered from the site of the blasts, adding that only 2 people still remain to be identified.
The cause of the Tianjin incident has not been specified yet, but reports say that the warehouse used to store such hazardous materials as sodium cyanide.
Following the explosion, Chinese President Xi Jinping vowed to implement more safety measures in the work places, calling on the country’s officials to learn from the “extremely profound” lessons of the deadly incident.
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