16 dead in lunchtime blast at cafeteria in southern China
At least 16 people were killed and 10 others were injured in a lunchtime explosion at an office cafeteria in southwest China.
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At least 16 people were killed and 10 others were injured in a lunchtime explosion at an office cafeteria in southwest China.
At least 16 people died when an explosion triggered by a suspected gas leak on Friday caused a building to collapse in Chongqing, China, state media said. The blast at 12:10pm brought down a neighborhood committee building housing a canteen, trapping 26 people, Xinhua news agency said. Early yesterday, Xinhua put the new death toll at 16, with 10 more injured, one of them critically. On Friday, the Chongqing government had put the initial death toll at nine. Videos and photos from Xinhua showed orange-clad workers in hard hats climbing through the rubble on Friday night under floodlights. Xinh...
A blast rocked a canteen of a subdistrict office in Wulong District, southwest China's Chongqing Municipality, about noon on Friday, local authorities said.
Personnel from the Chongqing local fire and rescue departments are on site, leading rescue efforts to excavate victims from underneath the collapsed rubble, according to video footage posted on the official Weibo account of the national fire and rescue department on Friday.
At least three people were killed following the canteen collapse in China's Chongqing on Friday.