China probes into factory blast as death toll rises to 47
Smoke rising from the site of an explosion at a chemical industrial park in Xiangshui county, Jiangsu province, China, yesterday. Chinese authorities are investigating the cause of the blast which killed at least 47 people. – EPA pic, March 22, 2019.
CHINESE President Xi Jinping ordered local governments today to prevent any more industrial disasters after a chemical plant blast left 47 people dead, injured hundreds and flattened an industrial park in the latest such catastrophe to hit the country. Yesterday’s explosion in the eastern city of Yancheng, Jiangsu province was one of the worst industrial disasters to hit China, with Xi acknowledging that the country has seen a rash of major accidents in recent years.
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