He urged efforts to quickly determine the cause of the accident and hold people accountable under the law. The blast occurred while an employee was replacing the valve.Ĭhinese President Xi Jinping demanded urgent medical care for the injured and a safety overhaul after the explosion, Xinhua said. Victims included elderly people and high school students, it said.Īn hour before the explosion, employees noticed the smell of cooking gas and discovered that a gas tank valve was broken, according to Xinhua. The explosion left many people unconscious and they needed to be carried out of the shop, according to the online news site The Paper, which quoted a member of the search and rescue team. Wednesday on a busy street in Yinchuan, the capital of the traditionally Muslim Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, as people gathered ahead of the Dragon Boat Festival, the official Xinhua News Agency said. The blast tore through the restaurant at around 8:40 p.m. HONG KONG (AP) - China’s president ordered a national safety campaign on Thursday after a massive cooking gas explosion at a barbecue restaurant in the northwest killed 31 people and injured seven others on the eve of a long holiday weekend.
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