Tianjin tackles latest explosion at chemical warehouse, 2 held
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FIREFIGHTERS in Tianjin were this week called on to tackle yet another warehouse blast, just two months after a huge explosion at a chemical storage facility in the north China port city left 165 people dead and hundreds more injured, authorities said yesterday.
There were no reports of any injuries in the latest blast, though two people have been detained in connection with the incident, officials in Beichen District, where the property is located, said in an online statement.
The explosion happened about 9:40pm on Monday at a 700-square-meter warehouse in the Xiditou Township, the statement said, adding that firefighting teams succeeded in bringing the blaze under control about 2:30am the following morning.
Officials from the Beichen Environmental Protection Bureau were quoted by Xinhua news agency as saying the warehouse contained about 3 tons of alcohol, 1 ton of acetic acid, 800 kilograms of glycerinum, 500kg of sodium hydroxide and 500kg of potassium hydroxide.
There have as yet been no reports of any environmental pollution, but officials will continue to monitor the situation, it said.
The two people being questioned are the warehouse’s owner, surnamed Huo, and the legal representative, surnamed Zhou, of Tianjin Yong Sheng Fine Chemical Co, the firm that rented it and owned the contents, Beichen police said.
While no explanation has been given for the cause of the blast, Tianjin’s municipal authorities said yesterday that an initial investigation showed the warehouse was not properly registered.
“All chemical warehouses have to be registered with the government, but this one was not,” Xinhua quoted an unnamed official as saying.
On August 12, 165 people, including 99 firefighters and 11 police officers, were killed and about 700 were injured in a sequence of blasts at a warehouse in Tianjin’s Binhai New Area.
The property was later found to have been holding huge amounts of toxic chemicals, including 700 tons of sodium cyanide.
Since then, 23 people have been detained or placed under investigation.
In the aftermath of the blasts, authorities in Binhai pledged to conduct sweeping safety inspections at companies that handle chemicals and other potentially dangerous goods.
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