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14 killed in China chemical factory explosion
At least 14 workers were killed and five others injured in an explosion at a chemical plant in east China’s Shandong Province, authorities said.
The blast occurred on Saturday at a melamine production facility of Shandong Liaherd Chemical Industry Co Ltd in the city of Xintai when workers were maintaining and repairing a condenser, the Xintai city government said in a statement. The explosion left four workers dead on the spot and another 15 injured. Later, 10 more workers succumbed to their injuries at the hospital after emergency medical treatment failed, raising the death toll to 14. The remaining five injured were in stable condition, the official Xinhua news agency reported.
