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Death toll soars in China chemical blast
« on: March 22, 2019, 02:09:19 am »
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Death toll soars in China chemical blast

The death toll in a huge blast at a chemical plant in eastern China has jumped to 44, with 90 more injured, state media say.

Read more at: https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-47663023
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« Reply #1 on: March 22, 2019, 02:19:51 am »
Ammonium nitrate?
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Re: Death toll soars in China chemical blast
« Reply #2 on: March 22, 2019, 11:59:32 am »
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Scores dead in massive explosion at Chinese chemical plant
Date created : 22/03/2019 - 05:04
Latest update : 22/03/2019 - 06:22

 The death toll from a huge explosion at a chemical plant in eastern China surged to 47 on Friday, making it one of the country's worst industrial accidents in recent years.

More than 600 people are receiving medical treatment following Thursday afternoon's blast at the industrial park in Yancheng, said the city government on its official Twitter-like Weibo account. Among them, at least 90 are seriously injured. City officials had previously said that at least 12 people were killed and 30 injured in the explosion in Jiangsu province.

The explosion was so powerful that it apparently triggered a small earthquake, knocked down several factory buildings and shattered the windows of homes a few kilometres away. ...

According to local officials, the Jiangsu-based company mainly produced raw chemical materials, including anisole, a highly flammable compound.  ...
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Re: Death toll soars in China chemical blast
« Reply #3 on: March 22, 2019, 12:00:53 pm »
Devastation at blast site after China chemical plant explosion leaves 47 dead, 640 injured
https://sg.news.yahoo.com/china-chemical-plant-explosion-death-012855304.html

Executives of a chemical plant in China’s Jiangsu province have been taken into police custody after an explosion on Thursday killed at least 47 people, injured 640 others and polluted areas several kilometres away.

Cao Lubao, mayor of Yancheng, where the blast occurred, said on Friday that nearly 3,000 people – employees of nearby plants and residents – had been evacuated after the explosion at the Jiangsu Tianjiayi Chemical plant in the township of Chenjiagang, which left a giant crater....

...Jiangsu Tianjiayi Chemical plant was flattened and 16 neighbouring factories were left with varying degrees of damage. The impact smashed windows and uprooted roofs of some buildings and reduced others to rubble....
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