Commission to investigate factory explosion in Inner Mongolia
The State Work Safety Commission has decided to investigate an explosion at a factory in North China’s Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region.
The blast occurred at around 3:00 p.m. on Sunday at a plate plant operated by Baogang United Steel in the west of the city of Baotou.
This was reported by the Ministry of Emergency Management on Monday.
As of 6:00 a.m. on Monday, the explosion had claimed two lives, left eight others missing, and resulted in 84 people going to the hospital.
The ministry has urged local authorities to organise search and rescue operations in a scientific manner, prevent secondary accidents, and provide all-out medical treatment for the injured to minimise casualties to the greatest extent possible.
It also called for a prompt investigation into the cause of the accident and stressed the need to draw lessons from the incident to prevent similar accidents from recurring.
Rescue forces from the ministry have been dispatched to the scene.
(Xinhua/NAN)
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