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One dead, 41 injured in chemical factory blast
(Xinhua)
Updated: 2008-11-01 00:08 LANZHOU -- One man died and 41 were injured after a chemical factory explosion in northwest China's Gansu Province on Friday, official sources said. The explosion in chlorine tanks occurred at 5:30 p.m. Friday at a paraffin plant in Yongjing County, local government said. The injured have been sent to hospital for treatment. Wang Xiaoming, deputy director of Gansu Health Department, said it would be a further three days before they could be sure that the injured were out of danger. The cause of the accident was being investigated. |
