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    Gas explosion in China kills 12, injures 140

    At least 12 people have been killed and nearly 140 others injured after a gas line explosion ripped through a residential block in central China's Hubei province, local officials said.

    Rescue efforts were continuing, according to a statement from the disaster management office in the city of Shiyan, although it was unclear how many people may still be trapped under the debris.

    Videos shot by witnesses and verified by Beijing News show several buildings reduced to rubble and rescue workers carrying shocked survivors on stretchers.


    The blast ripped through one of the city's vegetable markets that was filled with shoppers and local residents eating breakfast, an eyewitness told state-run Global Times.


    "I heard a loud bang and immediately ducked under the table, thinking it was an earthquake," a man who owns a small restaurant near the explosion site told the newspaper.


    State broadcaster CCTV showed footage of buildings with charred walls and shattered windows.
    Rescuers are seen raking through the debris with shovels and gloved hands.

    The explosion took place at about 6.30 am and an investigation was under way to determine the cause of the blast, the statement said.

    The Ministry of Emergency Management has also sent a team to assist with the rescue operation.


    Industrial accidents are common in China due to weak safety standards and corruption among officials tasked with enforcing them.
    The blast comes a day after eight people were killed and three others injured when toxic methyl formate leaked from a chemical handling facility in the southwestern city of Guiyang.

    Gas explosion in China kills 12, injures 140

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    The one thing the article doesn't mention is who China will blame for this tragedy. Tibetan monks? Taiwan? Japan? CIA?

    The hopeful part of me wants to think the country's leadership is maturing and will accept responsibility and be transparent. Will have to wait and see.

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    Quote Originally Posted by TTraveler View Post
    The hopeful part of me wants to think the country's leadership is maturing and will accept responsibility and be transparent.
    I think it's the NSA's turn to be blamed . . . or Uyghurs so they have another excuse to gather them up and put them in concentration camps

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    It was bad bats.

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    Quote Originally Posted by TTraveler View Post
    The one thing the article doesn't mention is who China will blame for this tragedy.
    Imported beef from Australia? Oh wait, they've already used that one as the origin source of Covid

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    Quote Originally Posted by Headworx View Post
    Imported beef from Australia? Oh wait, they've already used that one as the origin source of Covid
    That was a unique blame-game ploy . . . beef. New Zealand also sent them covid-19 tainted produce . . . allegedly

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    ^Worked with more than enough of them (me as Client rep, them as Contractors) to know they're totally incapable of accepting blame for anything. Even when they've fucked up beyond what anyone would think possible and we're staring together at the smouldering remains in front of us the best you'll get out of them is something like "it's not perfect".

    I fucking detest them with a passion, the most dishonest deceptive useless cvnts I've ever had the misfortune of having to be on the same sites with.

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