MOSCOW (MRC) - A blast at a chemical plant in China’s northwestern Xinjiang autonomous region has killed three people and severely injured six, said Reuters with reference to the official Tianshan news website Wednesday report.
The explosion occurred when Xinjiang Xinzhi Energy Chemicals Co tested a rotary lime kiln on Tuesday afternoon, the report said.
The deadly accident comes about one month after a gas leak at a plant owned by a ChemChina subsidiary caused a blast that killed 23 people in the eastern Hebei province.
As MRC informed before, in July 2018, an explosion at a chemical plant in China killed 19 people and injured 12. It was not clear then what caused the blast at Yibin Hengda Technology in an industrial park several hours southeast of Chengdu, the capital of the southwestern province of Sichuan.
China has kicked off measures to improve industrial safety, ramping up checks over the last year, following some high-profile incidents at coal mines and chemical plants.
In 2015, an explosion in a chemical warehouse in the northern port city of Tianjin killed 165 people. Last year a blast at a petrochemical plant in eastern Shandong province killed eight people and injured nine.
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