综合一区欧美国产,99国产麻豆免费精品,九九精品黄色录像,亚洲激情青青草,久久亚洲熟妇熟,中文字幕av在线播放,国产一区二区卡,九九久久国产精品,久久精品视频免费

   

Five killed, 33 injured in chemical plant explosion

(Xinhua)
Updated: 2008-01-14 07:22

KUNMING -- Five people were killed, 33 were injured and two others were still missing following a chemical plant explosion on Sunday in Kunming, capital of southwestern Yunnan Province, the local government said.

The injured had been hospitalized and were out of danger. An official with the city's publicity office told Xinhua that seven seriously injured people were in critical condition.

Rescuers were searching for the missing, according to a notice issued by the city government of Kunming.

"Rescuers said the survival chances for the two missing are very slim," said an official who declined to give his name.

The explosion happened at a sulphuric acid plant under the state-run Yuntianhua International Chemical Industry Co., Ltd., a leading chemical fertilizer producer in China, at 3:52 a.m. Sunday and caused a big fire.

Sulphur powder exploded and caused the fire when workers were loading them in front of a store house, said investigators from the city's work safety administration.

The fire was put out at around 8:00 a.m. Sunday. Air quality in the neighborhood of the sulphuric acid plant, which is less than 40 kilometers from the downtown area of Kunming, remained normal, according to the city's environment protection bureau.

On Sunday afternoon, a great deal of sulphur powder could still be seen in the messy warehouse when policemen with masks and helmets were busy investigating at the scene.

Wang Xiaoguang, vice mayor of Kunming, arrived at the site to supervise the rescue operation and told the city's factories to carry out thorough safety examinations.

The Kunming city government had set up a task force to investigate into cause of the accident and to deal with the aftermath, said Wang.

Located at the Haikou town in Xishan District in western part of Kunming, the sulphuric acid plant is run by the Yunnan Sanhuan Chemical Industry Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of Yuntianhua International Chemical Industry Co., Ltd., and it has more than 1,000 employees.

According to Huang Helong, an official with the Yunnan Sanhuan Chemical Industry Co., Ltd., all the victims were workers of the plant.

Huang said the rescue operation had almost finished and the whereabouts of the two missing were still unknown.

Founded in the 1970s, the sulphuric acid plant, which covers more than 50 hectares, is designed to produce 1.39 million tons of sulphuric acid and 1.2 million tons of phosphate sulfate fertilizer annually.

Further investigation of the cause of the incident was underway.



Top China News  
Today's Top News  
Most Commented/Read Stories in 48 Hours
黎川县| 湖南省| 沙湾县| 阿图什市| 剑川县| 武隆县| 花莲市| 金华市| 和平县| 修水县| 沁阳市| 广德县| 黎城县| 黑山县| 临海市| 卢湾区| 方山县| 怀集县| 句容市| 四会市| 全州县| 奈曼旗| 富裕县| 高密市| 唐山市| 武定县| 大关县| 吉安县| 西华县| 车险| 芒康县| 太和县| 玛纳斯县| 娱乐| 十堰市| 虎林市| 固镇县| 开化县| 驻马店市| 沈阳市| 育儿|