Want China Times, Xinhua 2014-08-02
A devastating factory blast killed 65 people and injured over 100 others in Kunshan in east China's Jiangsu province on Saturday morning, government sources said.
Firefighters at the scene of the blast, Aug. 2. (Photo/Xinhua) |
A devastating factory blast killed 65 people and injured over 100 others in Kunshan in east China's Jiangsu province on Saturday morning, government sources said.
The blast
happened at 7:37am inside a wheel hub polishing workshop owned by the Kunshan
Zhongrong Metal Products Co, the city government said.
People injured in the blast are brought to stretchers outside the factory, Aug. 2. (Photo/Xinhua) |
An initial
probe indicated that the explosion may have been caused by dust inside the
workshop, officials said.
Photos
circulated on social networking sites showed the charred bodies of victims
placed on trucks or lying in front of the factory as plumes of black smoke
billowed from the factory. Other photos showed hospitals crowed with patients
with burns.
Local
health authorities said most of the injured suffered burns and have been
treated in hospitals in Kunshan and the nearby cities of Suzhou and Wuxi.
Seven
doctors and nurses specializing in burns at Shanghai's Ruijin Hospital have
arrived in Kunshan to aid local hospitals now "crowded with injured
patients," according to the hospital.
The site
has been cleared and further investigation is underway.
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The injured
being taken to the hospital for treatment,
Aug. 3. (Photo/Xinhua)
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