The devastating images of the explosion in a chemical plant in China that killed 47 people

A strong explosion in a chemical plant in eastern China, characterized for a long time by violations of security measures 47 dead and hundreds wounded, among them 90 serious. The images show the magnitude of the epidemic.

The incident occurred Thursday in an industrial park in the city of Yancheng, north of Shanghai, is one of the cases worst industrial accidents in the country during the last years. The public television showed broken cars, broken windows and bloody workers leave the factory.

The schools were closed and about 1,000 residents of the region were taken to a safe place as a precaution against further leaks and explosions, according to the city government.

The explosion formed a crater and more than 900 firefighters were deployed to extinguish the fire that lasted several hours during the night.

Windows of buildings located less than six kilometers from the factory were destroyed by the force of the explosion, which caused a seismic response of magnitude 2.2.

A resident of Chenjiagang community, about five kilometers from the factory, said that several neighbors had been found injured by the glbad windows that exploded by the force of the explosion.

Chinese President Xi Jinping, on a state visit to Italy, said that "every effort will be made" to find and rescue the victims, published the official news agency Xinhua.

The high number of deaths, which went from 6 hours to 47 hours in a few hours, and the fact that the number of casualties has not changed, suggests that rescue teams they still find corpses instead of the explosion.

Some 3,500 medical workers from 16 hospitals They were mobilized to treat the wounded, including dozens in critical condition, said the Yancheng Municipal Government.

The cause of the explosion is found under investigation and the personnel responsible for operations at the plant are "under control", according to Xinhua. It is unclear if anyone was officially arrested.

China has long faced industrial safety issues. An explosion in a Tianjin City chemical shop killed 173 people in 2015.