9 in custody over oil pipeline blasts
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An excavator is used at the site of a pipeline explosion in Qingdao Development Zone, in Qingdao, east China's Shandong Province, Nov. 24, 2013. A leaking pipeline caught fire and exploded on Friday morning in Huangdao District of Qingdao. [Xinhua] |
Nine people have been put in police custody after oil pipeline leakage and blasts killed 55 people in east China's coastal city of Qingdao.
Seven of them are from Sinopec, the country's largest oil refinery which owns the pipeline, and two from the city's economic and technological development zone, said the police investigating the accident.
The blasts exposed serious human errors and the accident was a "very serious dereliction of duty," Yang Dongliang, director of the State Administration of Work Safety, said earlier in the day.
Problems included the unreasonable layout of oil pipelines and urban drainage pipes, negligence in pipeline supervision, and unprofessional handling of oil leakage before the blasts, said Yang.
According to local police, 49 bodies have been identified so far, with 42 of them male.
The oil slick from the blasts is under control, the Shandong Maritime Safety Administration said yesterday, and most schools and kindergartens have resumed classes.
The blasts on Friday also left nine people missing and injured more than 160 others.
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