Ninety people still in critical condition after blast blew out windows and collapsed roofs a mile away.
By Yuan Wang and Gerry Shih Gerry Shih China Correspondent Email Bio Follow March 22 at 4:39 AM BEIJING — A massive blast at a chemical factory ripped through an industrial zone on China’s eastern seaboard on Thursday, killing 47 people and injuring more than 600, local authorities said.
The blast carried echoes of the massive chemical warehouse explosion in 2015 in the northern coastal city of Tianjin, which killed more than 160 people and sparked an accountability crisis for China’s leaders. In a torrent of outrage following that explosion, Chinese citizens accused local and central leaders of failing to improve the country’s poor industrial safety record and covering up the extent of the devastation.
The blast was so violent it was suspected of triggering a 2.2-magnitude tremor in a nearby county that was picked up by China’s earthquake monitors.
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