China Grapples With Blast, Spill in Latest Accidents
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China sent hundreds of officials to assist people hurt in a gas-pipeline blast in the city of Nanjing and to retrieve 3,000 barrels of hazardous chemicals that washed into a river in Jilin as authorities grappled with the latest in a string of industrial accidents.
The explosion at an abandoned factory in the eastern city of Nanjing killed at least 13 people, severely injured 14 and hospitalized 120, the city government said at a briefing today. Demolition of buildings at the factory damaged a propylene pipeline, causing the blast, according to the government.