Posted on 11/25/2017 8:09:43 PM PST by BenLurkin
The accident happened at around 9 a.m. in the plant in Jiangbei District of Ningbo City, causing some buildings to collapse, the city's fire department said.
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If the Chinese press reports on an accident, you know it has to be pretty bad.
What was supposed to be Warheads candy turned out to be real warheads.
That looks really bad. No more Ningbo.
Fireworks?
It cant be as bad as that explosion they had a year or two ago.
THAT was a humdinger!
Who knew that a china factory could be so dangerous?
Crackpots?
How many bulls were let loose?
We used to have plants blow up when we made stuff.
Well played.
Pray for the wounded and the families of the dead.
Big bang, they say it wasn’t a gas explosion.
NINGBO, CHINA (AFP) - A septic tank was at the centre of an explosion that ripped through the Chinese mega-port of Ningbo at the weekend, killing at least two people and injuring 20 more, the authorities have said.
The blast, which erupted in a vacant lot, was so powerful that it was heard several kilometres away, toppling nearby disused buildings, shattering windows in residential towers and mangling cars.
"We were having tea and bwaaaah! It knocked my mother off her stool. It was incredibly loud," said a local woman who gave only her surname, Wu.
The local government said on one of its social media accounts late on Sunday (Nov 26) that two people were missing following the explosion. Four people were severely injured and 15 others had minor wounds.
Public security officials "have confirmed that the blast's epicentre is a septic tank in an empty field", the statement said.
Methane and hydrogen sulphide - both highly flammable substances - can build up in septic tanks.
The authorities had thrown up a cordon around the collapsed buildings and were still investigating the cause of the explosion in Ningbo, a city just south of Shanghai and one of China's largest ports.
An elderly woman said one of her children had been in the area at the time of the blast.
"Yes, we live here and one of my children is still inside (the exclusion zone) and hasn't been found yet," she said, declining to give details about the person's age or sex.
She dabbed tears with a tissue and dialled her phone. Asked who she was calling, she said, "my child".
Early on Monday, locals were sweeping up piles of debris and glass at the blast site where rubble was strewn across an area several hundred metres wide.
The city government described the site of the blast as a vacant lot. State media had identified it as an abandoned factory. The site appeared to be a very rundown former light industrial area.
Residents said some people from outside Ningbo had been squatting in the area, but others disputed that.
"Most people had left here a long time ago. It was just a wasteland lot," Ms Wu said.
She said most structures in the blast area had already been crumbling for some time, so not all the rubble seen was caused by the explosion.
Another local man, who declined to give his name, said: "It's lucky that more people did not die, but no one was living here anymore."
Oh my!
The Eastman Chemical plant blew up within I believe the last 90 days. No deaths or injuries
How large was this tank ? What set it off ?
Since they say it was in a run down industrial area, I’ll guess scrap metal recyclers that were trying to burn a hole in this tank and it went boom.
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