Friday, 14 August 2015

DEATH TOLL JUMPS AFTER MASSIVE EXPLOSION AT WAREHOUSE

13 Aug 2015, Tianjin, Tianjin Municipality, China --- Dense smoke rises from the fire caused by blasts in a warehouse at the Binhai New Area, killing at least 17 people, in Tianjin, China, 13 August 2015. Huge explosions hit an industrial area in northern Chinese port city of Tianjin late on Wednesday (12 August 2015), triggering a blast wave felt kilometres away and injuring scores of people. Seventeen people have been confirmed dead, 32 are in critical condition, at least another 400 injured as of 6:30 am Thursday after an explosion ripped through a warehouse in Tianjin City, according to police authority. Two firefighters were "out of contact", police said. Chinese President Xi Jinping and Premier Li Keqiang have urged all-out efforts to save the injured and minimize casualties in the Tianjin blast. According to the Sina Weibo post of the firefighting bureau under the Ministry of Public Security, The Tianjin fire --- Image by © Imaginechina/Corbis
Huge explosions in an industrial area have sent up massive fireballs that killed at least 44 people and injured hundreds in the Chinese port city of Tianjin.
China’s state broadcaster CCTV said 32 people among the 300-400 taken to hospital were in a critical condition. The official Xinhua News agency said 12 of the dead were firefighters.
The blasts, originating at a warehouse for hazardous material, blew doors off buildings in the area and shattered windows up to several miles away.
‘I thought it was an earthquake so I rushed downstairs without my shoes on,’ Zhang Siyu, whose home is several miles from the blast site, said. ‘Only once I was outside did I realise it was an explosion. There was the huge fireball in the sky with thick clouds. Everybody could see it.’
epaselect epa04881648 General view of the destruction after explosions in the port area of Tianjin, northern China, 13 August 2015. Official reports say at least 17 people were killed and hundreds injured. Thirty-two people were critically injured, and another 283 in hospital, after the blast and fireball in the port city of Tianjin. EPA/STR CHINA OUT
**WARNING GRAPHIC IMAGES** Local residents, some of whom were injured after blasts in a warehouse at the Binhai New Area, killing at least 17 people, are seen on a road in Tianjin, China, 13 August 2015. <P> <B>Ref: SPL1101364 130815 </B><BR /> Picture by: Imaginechina / Splash News<BR /> </P><P> <B>Splash News and Pictures</B><BR /> Los Angeles: 310-821-2666<BR /> New York: 212-619-2666<BR /> London: 870-934-2666<BR /> photodesk@splashnews.com<BR /> </P>
Ms Zhang said she could see wounded people weeping. She did not see anyone who had been killed, but ‘I could feel death’.
There was no indication of what caused the blasts and no immediate sign of any large release of toxic chemicals into the air. The Beijing News website said there was some unidentified yellow foam flowing at the site.
Firefighters work at the site as smoke and fire rise from the debris after the explosions at the Binhai new district in Tianjin, China, August 13, 2015. Two massive explosions caused by flammable goods ripped through an industrial area in the northeast Chinese port city of Tianjin late on Wednesday, killing 17 people and injuring as many as 400, official Chinese media reported. REUTERS/China Daily CHINA OUT. NO COMMERCIAL OR EDITORIAL SALES IN CHINA
Shattered building windows are seen near the site of a series of explosions in Tianjin on August 13, 2015. A series of enormous explosions at an industrial area in the Chinese port of Tianjin killed at least 44 people and injured hundreds, state media reported August 13, unleashing a fireball that ripped through the night sky. CHINA OUT AFP PHOTOSTR/AFP/Getty Images
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