SHANGHAI – Two people have been reported killed after a firework explosion on the outskirts of Tangshan in northern China’s Hebei province on Saturday.
The explosion took place at 1 p.m. in a village in the steel producing district of Fengrun, state media reported.
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Footage and photographs circulated on social media showed large plumes of smoke drifting over a cluster of houses, one of which had been reduced to rubble as a result of the blast. Rescue workers were at the scene.
The official Xinhua news agency said on its Twitter-like Weibo microblog that a preliminary investigation showed the explosion was caused by a private stash of fireworks. A suspect had already been detained by police, it said.
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