One killed, two injured in residential building blast
( 2003-10-05 17:25) (Xinhua)
One people was killed and two others injured Saturday afternoon in a powerful
explosion in a residential building in Shenzhen city, south China's Guangdong
Province.
The explosion occurred at around 3:30 p.m. Saturday inside an apartment of
about 80 square meters on the ground floor of a residential building in the
Honghuaxincun Village of Songgang Township in the Bao'an District of Shenzhen
city.
A partition wall inside the apartment was blown down by the explosion and all
the windows were destroyed completely.
The neighbouring residents said that the owner of the apartment was in
chemical business and a lot of chemical products were stacked in the room.
Officials of the Bao'an District rushed to the scene for rescue and relief
operations immediately after the accident, and the cause of explosion is still
under investigation.
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