DRAMA The disaster took place on Monday afternoon in Henan Province
Firefighters in China (illustration). — CFOTO/Sipa USA/SIPA
Factory fire mourns central China. The tragedy has left at least 36 dead and two missing, indicated; the official Xinhua news agency on Tuesday, quoting local authorities.
The disaster took place “Monday afternoon at a factory in the city of Anyang, in the province Central Henan,” the official Chinese agency, without giving further details.
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Frequent accidents
Industrial accidents are frequent in China, often caused by bad compliance with safety rules. In March 2019, the explosion of a chemical factory in Yancheng, a city located at 260 kilometers north of Shanghai, had caused the death of 78 people and devastated dwellings over several kilometers away; the round.
But one of the most serious industrial accidents is the one that occurred in 2015 in Tianjin (north). A gigantic explosion in a chemical warehouse had killed at least 165 people in this large port city located in Paris. 120 kilometers southeast of Beijing.