A weekend explosion at a factory in eastern China has killed one person, adding to fears of unsafe conditions in the chemicals industry only 10 days after a series of blasts killed 123 people in Tianjin.
Chinese state media reported on Saturday night that nine people had been hurt in the explosion at the Runxing Chemical plant in eastern Shandong province, one of whom died.
In an official post on Weibo, China’s equivalent of Twitter, the local public security bureau said the fire caused by the blast was “basically controlled”. The Shandong fire department said on its microblog that canisters containing a chemical used to produce nylon had burst.