An explosion in a building outside Beijing kills 1 person and injures 22
By Huizhong Wu, The Associated Press on March 12, 2024.
BEIJING (AP) – Rescuers were responding to a suspected gas leak explosion Wednesday in a building in a city outside of Beijing that has killed one person and injured 22, authorities said. The explosion came early in the morning from a fried chicken shop in the city of Sanhe, authorities said in a short statement. The city is just an hour drive west of Beijing. Videos online showed smoke billowing out of a mid-level commercial building at an intersection. Fires were still burning, according to CCTV, and 154 firefighters had been sent there to control the damage. Police cordoned off streets 1 kilometer (over half a mile) out from the explosion, Associated Press reporters saw, and were directing people away. 5-4
