{"id":306217,"date":"2018-11-28T05:43:48","date_gmt":"2018-11-28T05:43:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=306217"},"modified":"2018-11-28T05:43:48","modified_gmt":"2018-11-28T05:43:48","slug":"china-explosion-near-chemical-plant-kills-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/china-explosion-near-chemical-plant-kills-22\/","title":{"rendered":"China: Explosion near chemical plant kills 22"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-306219 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/blast-1-300x165.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"551\" height=\"303\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/blast-1-300x165.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/11\/blast-1.jpg 597w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 551px) 100vw, 551px\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">An explosion near a large chemical factory in northern China killed at least 22 people and left 22 others injured on Wednesday, officials said, adding to the string of deadly accidents in the country\u2019s vast industrial sector.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">According to the reports, the incident near the\u00a0Hebei Shenghua Chemical Company\u00a0in Zhangjiakou, a city some 200 kilometres (124 miles) northwest of Beijing also burned 50 vehicles, including dozens of trucks.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The injured were rushed to the hospital for treatment following the blast, which occurred at 00:41 am, according to the statement.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">\u201cSearch and rescue work at the site, and an investigation into the cause of the accident, are still underway,\u201d official said in a statement.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An explosion near a large chemical factory in northern China killed at least 22 people and left 22 others injured on Wednesday, officials said, adding to the string of deadly accidents in the country\u2019s vast industrial sector. According to the reports, the incident near the\u00a0Hebei Shenghua Chemical Company\u00a0in Zhangjiakou, a city some 200 kilometres (124 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":306219,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[53],"tags":[9939,666,9940,9941],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306217"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=306217"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":306220,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/306217\/revisions\/306220"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/306219"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=306217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=306217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=306217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}