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A strong chemical explosion in China killed 19 people, while 12 others were wounded, authorities said. The mbadive disaster adds to a series of lethal industrial accidents in China, the country that is the world's largest producer of chemicals.
It is not yet known what caused the explosion of Thursday afternoon at the Yibin Hengda plant a park southeast of Chengdu, the capital of Sichuan Province (south- west), Jiangan County authorities reported.
The wounded are in a state of equilibrium while the authorities are conducting an investigation, reported the official New China news agency
. The Reuters news agency did not answer. Photographs posted on Chinese social networking sites describe mbadive fire and dense emanations from the factory
At least 19 people were killed and 12 others wounded in an explosion in Yibin Industrial Park southwest #China #Sichuan Province; cause under the fire, which occurred early in the afternoon of Thursday, was extinguished at 23:30 local time,
The government is putting in place measures to increase the security of industrial facilities and intensify inspections in factories over the past year, following a series of accidents that have been widely publicized
. The Tianjin chemical store in northern China killed 165 people. Last year, an explosion in a petrochemical plant in east China's Shandong Province killed eight people and wounded nine others
19 people died and 12 were injured in an industrial zone of an industrial park. Jiang County & Co., #Sichuan Province around 6:50 pm Thursday. Local authorities said that the cause of the accident was the subject of an investigation. pic.twitter.com/SlobFbBroy
– China More News (@ChinaPlusNews) July 13, 2018
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