The 2015 Dongyin explosion was an explosion that occurred at the Diao Kou Xiang Bin Yuan Chemical Co. located within the
Dongying Economic Development Zone in
Dongying,
Shandong
Shandong ( , ; ; alternately romanized as Shantung) is a coastal province of the People's Republic of China and is part of the East China region.
Shandong has played a major role in Chinese history since the beginning of Chinese civilizati ...
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China
China, officially the People's Republic of China (PRC), is a country in East Asia. It is the world's most populous country, with a population exceeding 1.4 billion, slightly ahead of India. China spans the equivalent of five time zones and ...
, on Monday, 31 August 2015 and killed thirteen people.
Events
At 11:22pm on 31 August 2015, a chemical factory in the Dongyin-Lijin Binhai
Economic and Technological Development Zone in eastern China exploded. The ensuing fire took five hours to bring under control. Chinese authorities detained 12 company employees and executives and 11 government officials.
One person was reported to have been killed in the explosion,
however the death toll later rose to 13 with 25 others injured.
The blast came just three weeks after the
Tianjin disaster which garnered significant media coverage.
See also
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2015 Tianjin explosions
On 12 August 2015, a series of explosions at the Port of Tianjin in Tianjin, northern China, killed 173 people, according to official reports, and injured hundreds of others. The explosions occurred at a container storage station in the Binha ...
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2014 Kunshan explosion
The 2014 Kunshan explosion () was a dust explosion that occurred at Zhongrong Metal Production Company, an automotive parts factory located in Kunshan, Jiangsu, China, on 2 August 2014. As of December 30, 2014, the explosion killed 146 worker ...
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1988 PEPCON disaster
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Largest artificial non-nuclear explosions
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List of accidents and disasters by death toll
References
2015 disasters in China
2015 industrial disasters
Chemical plant explosions
Explosions in 2015
Explosions in China
Industrial fires and explosions in China
Disasters in Shandong
August 2015 events in China
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