The reporter learned from relevant departments of Gansu Province that at about 18:50 on June 16, an explosion occurred in the sludge drying workshop of Gansu Binnong Technology Co., Ltd. in Lanzhou New District.

After all-out search and rescue, as of 20:00 on the 17th, 6 missing persons were confirmed to have died unfortunately.

  One of the eight injured persons in the accident has been discharged from the hospital, and the remaining seven were treated in the New District First People's Hospital with stable vital signs.

(Headquarters reporter Liu Long, Zhang Lei, Wang Hao)