| A photo taken on early Thursday, September 3, 2009 shows the truck at the center of a chemical explosion in Lanshan District, Linyi, east China's Shandong province. Eighteen people were killed and 10 others were injured Wednesday afternoon when chemicals exploded while being unloaded from a truck in Linyi, Shandong province. The cause of the accident is still under investigation. [Xinhua]
Eighteen people died when chemicals exploded while being unloaded from a truck in Linyi, Shandong province, the Xinhua news agency said on Wednesday.
Xinhua did not say what kind of chemicals had caused the explosion, which it said injured 10 other people.
Some Chinese municipalities have begun to impose regulations on the transport of dangerous chemicals, to reduce the danger to residential neighbourhoods as chemicals are transported to and from factories. |