12 killed in China's latest industrial accident

Category: Science

Publish Date: 07-29-2010 12:00 AM -0700

The explosion at a plastics factory in eastern China injures 300 and reduces buildings to rubble. It follows an oil spill this month and an acid leak that poisoned a river.

A powerful explosion caused by a broken gas pipeline killed at least 12 people Wednesday, injured about 300 and flattened hundreds of buildings in eastern China in the latest in a series of troubling industrial accidents.

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