Chongqing explosion in China kills 16: media media | Stories
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A canteen building in southwestern China has collapsed after an explosion thought to have been caused by a gas leak.
A canteen warehouse in Chongqing in southwestern China has collapsed after an explosion believed to have been caused by gas leaks, killing at least 16 people, state CCTV reported Friday.
By midnight (1600 GMT) on Friday, 26 people had been evacuated, 16 of them dead, the broadcaster said on Saturday.
One person was critically injured, and the other injured were also in hospital after being locked in concrete following the blast.
The Ministry of Emergency Management has sent a team of over 600 people to the emergency room in Chongqing Wulong district, CCTV said.
Photographs posted by the Xinhua newspaper agency showed heavy equipment lifting concrete slabs at the site of the blast.
Some photographs showed paramedics and men in military uniforms digging into the rubble and carrying some of the wounded.
According to Xinhua International Committee, Globalink, the explosion occurred while people were eating lunch. The report said the cause of the explosion was being investigated.
Industrial and industrial hazards are not uncommon in China, often due to costly managers, safety standards and damage to infrastructure.
On Monday, a landslide at a construction site in southwestern Guizhou province in China killed at least 14 people.
In December, at least 18 people were killed trapped in a mine in Chongqing, the second accident in the area in just two months.
In July, 14 workers died in southern China’s Guangdong province after a flood over a canal they were building.
Some of the worst accidents in China were a major eruption of 2015 at a drugstore in Tianjin city which killed 173 people, most of them firefighters and police.
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