An explosion also occurred, Monday, in a chemical factory in northern China without a assessment being yet communicated.
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A fire on Monday, November 21, in a plant in the center of China caused the death of 38 people, reported on Tuesday, the official agency Xinhua, citing local authorities. Two people were injured and transported to hospital, but their lives are not in danger, according to CCTV.
According to the state media, the emergency services were immediately dispatched after being alerted from a fire at 4:22 p.m. local (9:22 am in Paris) on the Kaixinda Trading company website, In the city of Anyang, in the central province of Henan, 500 km south of Beijing.
Images diffused by the same sources show thick clouds of black smoke from the fire, with at least two fire trucks on site to fight the flames. On another video, we see the carbonized carcass of the building after the extinction of the fire which takes place around 11 p.m. locals.
According to the authorities, “criminal suspects” have been placed in police custody in relation to this fire. 2>
frequent industrial accidents
Industrial accidents are frequent in China. Also on Monday, an explosion occurred in a chemical factory in northern China, according to an official media which has not advanced a human assessment but material damage in the surrounding buildings. This incident took place in Taiyuan, the capital of the Shanxi province, according to Dahebao, an official provincial daily who cites the authorities.
According to videos broadcast on social networks, a fire started on the industrial site, releaseing very dense gray smoke which formed a huge fungus in the sky. Other images show housing on the ground strewn with glass shards, frightened people get out of buildings or even window amounts at the foot of buildings, due to the breath of the explosion.
“Staff has been dispatched to the site, the fire has been extinguished and the human assessment is not yet known,” said the Dahebao newspaper on the Weibo social network, citing the authorities. According to residents interviewed by local media, people were injured by glass bursts at the time of the explosion which occurred around 5:25 p.m. local (10:25 am in Paris). The factory, named Jiangyang, had already been struck by an explosion in September 2021, according to Dahebao.
respect for safety rules
Figure compliance with the safety rules related in particular to the storage conditions, the locked outings and the lack of fire fighting equipment is often cited as the direct cause of many dramas.
In March 2019, the explosion of a chemical factory in Yancheng, a city located 260 kilometers north of Shanghai, had caused the death of 78 people and devastated housing for several kilometers around.
One of the most serious industrial accidents is the one that occurred in 2015 in Tianjin (North). A gigantic explosion in a chemical warehouse had left at least 165 dead in this big port city located 120 kilometers south-east of Beijing.
