The Briefing Room
General Category => World News => Topic started by: TomSea on March 31, 2019, 11:09:05 am
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Excerpt:
China plant explosion kills seven; second blast in Jiangsu province this month
BEIJING (Reuters) - A plant explosion in China’s Jiangsu province has killed seven people, state media reported on Sunday, 10 days after a blast at a pesticide plant killed 78 people in the province and triggered a nationwide safety inspection campaign.
Sunday’s blast involved a container of scrap metal that caught fire in a metal-molding plant in a bonded area in the city of Kunshan, state news agency Xinhua said.
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The plant is owned by Kunshan Waffer Technology Corp Ltd., a Taiwan-based manufacturer of magnesium alloy injection molding products and aluminum alloy die castings.
Read more at: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-blast/china-plant-explosion-kills-seven-second-blast-in-jiangsu-province-this-month-idUSKCN1RC0AC (https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-blast/china-plant-explosion-kills-seven-second-blast-in-jiangsu-province-this-month-idUSKCN1RC0AC)
"A Taiwan-based manufacturer"... I'm surprised such a relationship exists... anyway, 2nd explosion in a month. The other one was much more deadly and video of the explosion itself does exist which was very powerful.