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Beijing.- The number of injured in the explosion recorded this Sunday at a steel plate plant in the Chinese region of Inner Mongolia (north) rose to 84 and there are also eight people missing in the accident, which also left two dead.
Local authorities in the city of Baotou, where the factory is located, reported on Monday that all the injured were treated in hospitals, five of them in serious condition.You may be interested in: http://Aumentan a 21 los fallecidos en la colisión de dos trenes en el sur de España
According to the municipal emergency management office, the incident occurred around 15:00 local time (07:00 GMT) on Sunday at a Baogang United Steel factory located in the west of the town. Regional, municipal, and district forces were mobilized for rescue operations, in which more than 170 police officers and 70 police vehicles participated, in addition to more than 130 firefighters and rescue teams. The cause of the explosion, which generated perceptible tremors in the surrounding area, remains under investigation, while the authorities shut down the factory and initiated safety inspections of industrial facilities throughout the city. Investigations were also launched to determine the environmental impact of the explosion, although for the moment no adverse effects were detected in the air or soil quality, and the accident did not generate liquid waste either, according to the environmental protection departments responsible for the study. Industrial accidents are frequent in China, where lax safety protocols and insufficient enforcement of existing standards persist. In June of last year, an explosion at a fireworks factory in Linli County, in central Hunan Province, left nine dead and 26 injured.
