Oil tanker explosion kills 7 in China
Seven workers were killed when an Indian oil tanker exploded
and caught fire at a shipyard in east China's Zhejiang Province on Tuesday.
A spokesman with the provincial work safety supervision
bureau made this known to Xinhua.
Smoke was detected followed by the explosion around 7:20
a.m., when the seven workers were repairing the tanker at the Haizhou Shipyard
in Daishan County in the city of Zhoushan.
The oil tanker, which has an oil load capacity of 50,000
tonnes, was unloaded when the accident happened.
The spokesman said that all the victims were Chinese.
However, the cause of the accident is under investigation.
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