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Pipeline blast kills 22 in Qingdao

China.org.cn, November 22, 2013

• A leaky pipeline caught fire and exploded Friday morning in the coastal city of Qingdao, east China's Shandong Province, leaving 22 people dead.

  Witnesses said more than 20 fire engines have rushed to the site.

  A fire broke out and the blast occurred around 10 a.m. in the Huangdao District when workers were repairing a petroleum pipeline which broke and resulted in an oil leakage around 3 a.m., according to the official microblog service of the Qingdao government's publicity office.

  The pipeline is owned by China's largest oil refiner Sinopec.

   

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