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Postdoctoral researcher killed in lab blast at Tsinghua University
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A postdoctoral researcher was killed in a laboratory blast, which rocked a building at Beijing's Tsinghua University on Friday morning.
Pictures taken by witnesses showed heavy fumes came out of the windows on the second floor of a school building. Teachers and students were immediately evacuated after the blast, reported Beijing Youth Daily. The fire was later put out by firefighters, the report said.
Local fire control authority later reportedly confirmed that one researcher was killed in the blast while the cause of the explosion remained unclear.
Windows of rooms next to the lab were all shattered in the blast, Beijing Youth Daily reported.
Legal Evening News cited a Tsinghua University student as saying that an organic catalysis experiment was going on in the lab before the explosion.
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