Safety management at the Chinese firm whose poultry slaughterhouse caught fire earlier this week killing 120 people was a “total mess” and two senior executives have been detained by the authorities, state media said on Thursday. The local government is …
Authorities have raised the death toll by one to 120 in this week’s disastrous fire at a northeast China poultry processing plant. The State Administration of Work Safety said Wednesday that 17 of the 395 people at work during Monday’s …
A fire breaks out in a Chinese factory, and panicked workers discover one exit after another is locked. That describes not only the poultry plant fire that killed 119 people Monday, but a toy-factory blaze that left 87 workers dead …
Relatives of workers killed as fire swept through a poultry slaughterhouse in rural northeast China blocked traffic and scuffled with police on Tuesday demanding answers to one of China’s worst industrial disasters in recent years. At least 120 people died. …
At least 119 people were killed by a fire at a poultry processing plant in northeastern China, the nation’s deadliest blaze in 13 years, as rescuers raced to free others trapped in the 17-acre facility. The fire broke out in …