China: many dead in the fire of a factory in the center of the country
The fire in this factory in Henan was, it seems, caused by work on the power supply.
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Thirty-eight people died in a factory fire in central China's Henan province.
The fire that broke out late afternoon yesterday, Monday, November 21, also left two people slightly injured, according to state media.
The fire was apparently caused by work on the power supply.
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With our correspondent in China,
Stéphane Lagarde
The results of the preliminary investigation fell almost faster than the extinction of the fire itself.
It is "
electrical welding work
" that would have triggered the disaster;
“
The workers violated security measures
,” China
Central Television
said this morning .
Several "
criminal suspects
", this is the terminology used by the
official media
, have been taken into custody.
A total of 38 people are missing after a business company plant in Anyang of central China's Henan Province caught fire on Monday afternoon, a reporter from the China Media Group said on Tuesday.
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It was therefore 4:22 p.m. local time yesterday afternoon when the emergency services received the alert.
Thick black smoke then rose from the "
high-tech zone
" in Wenfeng district in Anyang, central Henan province.
The Kaixinda Trading factory is on fire.
It will take more than three hours for the 63 vehicles and 240 firefighters sent to the scene to bring the walls of flames under control.
It was not until 11 p.m. that the hearth was completely extinguished, revealing the carcasses of completely charred buildings.
Frequent accidents
These industrial accidents are frequent in the country and it is often the non-compliance with safety standards that is highlighted.
An explosion occurred on Monday in Taiyuan in Shanxi (northwest), apparently causing only material damage.
In November 2018, 22 people were killed in a factory
fire
near Zhangjiakou in the northern province of Hebei.
In March 2019, the explosion of a chemical factory in Yancheng in the eastern province of Jiangsu caused the death of 78 people.
In 2015, another
explosion
this time at a chemical warehouse in the port of Tianjin killed 165 people east of Beijing.
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