Passenger Liner Explosion Kills Four in S. ChinaAn explosion of a passenger-cargo vessel being repaired in a shipyard in Zhanjiang City of south China's Guangdong Province killed four workers in operation and injured eight others on Thursday morning.Of the injured, two were seriously wounded. A large number of policemen and fire-fighting personnel rushed to the site at a shipyard of the Zhanjiang Ocean-Shipping Group. The vessel, called Redbud No.7, had been a passenger liner operational in Qiongzhou Strait. It is 66 meters long and could receive 400 passengers and 25 motor vehicles. The passenger liner was sent to the shipyard for maintenance on October 1. The explosion happened when over 10 workers launched sealing operation near an emptied diesel oil tank. Xinhua reporters observed at the explosion site that a 5-ton iron plate of the vessel was bombed out dozens of meters away and debris of glass and other materials was scattered hundreds of meters around the site. The cause of the accident is under investigation. |
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