{"id":44556,"date":"2015-01-01T17:46:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-01T17:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1:10081\/?p=44556 "},"modified":"2015-01-01T17:46:00","modified_gmt":"2015-01-01T17:46:00","slug":"44556-revision-v1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/minzhuzhongguo.org\/?p=44556","title":{"rendered":"Seventeen Killed in South China Factory Blast: Official Media"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Investigators check the damage inside a building at the scene of a gas explosion at a factory in Foshan in southern China’s Guangdong province, Dec. 31, 2014.<\/div>
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Seventeen people were killed and 33 others were injured in the southern Chinese province of Guangdong on Wednesday after a series of gas explosions tore through an auto-parts factory.<\/div>
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The explosions ripped through the Fuwa Engineering Manufacturing Co. factory in Foshan city’s Shunde district at about 9:30 a.m., official Chinese media reported.<\/div>
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Three of the injured were seriously injured, while three are in critical condition, China’s Xinhua news agency quoted local officials as saying.<\/div>
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The explosions, which were described by Xinhua as “gas blasts,” occurred while the factory was closed for cleaning, it said.<\/div>
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An employee who answered the phone at a company nearby said he had heard the blasts.<\/div>
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“I was working at the time, and we heard two huge sounds like ‘bam, bam!” he said.<\/div>
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A Shunde resident surnamed Liu said he had also heard the blasts from about three miles away.<\/div>
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“There were two or three blasts that sounded as if people were letting off fireworks,” Liu said. “After I heard the explosions, then all the police and fire engines vehicles came rushing past.”<\/div>
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“The police sealed off several roads after that, so nobody could see what was going on,” he said.<\/div>
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‘A battlefield’<\/div>
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According to tweets posted to China’s popular Twitter-like service Sina Weibo, ambulances soon began to head to the scene from across the district.<\/div>
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“I am at the Leliu Hospital, and hospitals across the district are sending out ambulances and bringing [the injured] back to the Leliu Hospital,” one Weibo user tweeted on Wednesday.<\/div>
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