Posted on 07/11/2009 9:30:53 PM PDT by Jet Jaguar
An oil tank exploded at a chemical plant in Urumqi, capital of northwest China's restive Xinjiang region, on Sunday morning, the official Xinhua News Agency reported quoting firefighters. No casualties have been reported so far and the cause is being investigated, the report said.
The explosion occurred around 10 a.m. at a refinery of China National Petroleum Corp. in northern Urumqi, Xinhua quoted city firefighters as saying.
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Things are heating up in China...
Nyuk, nyuk.
BEIJING (Reuters) - An oil tank blew up at a chemical plant in Urumqi, capital of northwest China’s Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region, on Sunday morning, the Xinhua news agency said.
No casualties have been reported so far.
The agency did not give an explanation for the blast, which comes a week after ethnic rioting in Urumqi left 184 people dead.
When fighting a complex chemical fire, I hope they have an exquisite balance of black, brown and white firefighters, regardless of test scores. /sarc
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