Chris Lau
CNNSat, 01 Jul 2023 05:04 UTC
© From Pi_shushu/Weibo Hong KongFootage posted on Weibo by Chinese state media showed a huge plume of black smoke billowing into the air.
An explosion at a chemical plant in Southeast China on Saturday sent huge billows of thick black smoke into the air.
The blast took place at a plant owned by the silicon oil production company Jiangxi QianTai New Materials
at around noon in the city of Guixi, Jiangxi province, according to Chinese state media outlet CCTV.
Video capturing the dramatic scenes circulated on the social media platform Weibo, China's version of Twitter, featuring what sounded like the voices of firefighters urging people to keep their distance.
Footage posted on Weibo by CCTV and
People's Daily, another Chinese state media outlet, showed a huge plume of black smoke billowing into the air and emergency services attending to the scene.
Initial reports suggest that the explosion occurred after silicon oil caught fire, according to CCTV.
Authorities are investigating the cause of the fire that led to the explosion.CCTV said no injuries had been reported and people living nearby had been evacuated.
Firefighters are working to get the fire under control.
Comment: Just a few days
ago in Russia, also at a chemical plant:
One killed after fire at chemical plant in Russia
A lorry driver was killed after a fire ripped through several garages at a chemical production facility in the city of Nizhny Novgorod, Russia's emergency services ministry said on Thursday, as firefighters worked to extinguish the blaze.
The ministry said the fire had been contained to an area of 800 square meters and there was no threat to residential areas. Video footage on social media showed dozens of firefighters at the scene and black smoke billowing high into the air.
The TASS news agency quoted the regional branch of Russia's state labor inspectorate as saying that a man had died after suffering burns on 90% of his body as a result of a tanker fire on the territory of the Balzam chemical plant.
Balzam could not immediately be reached for comment. The plant in Nizhny Novgorod is around 440 kilometers (273 miles) east of Moscow.
Further collapse supply lines? I dunno but I’ve never seen this many happening as I have these last couple of years.