Many lost their lives, more than 100 injured after truck blasts on China highway.

Many lost their lives, more than 100 injured after truck blasts on China highway

A truck carrying liquefied gas exploded on Saturday evening on the Shenyang-Haikou Expressway south of Shanghai.

A tanker truck exploded on a highway in southeastern China on Saturday, killing 18 people and harming at least 189 others, authorities stated. The blast created a huge loss to nearby buildings. An image showed firefighters hosing down a line of buildings with blown-out facades well into the night.

The truck exploded around 4:45 pm on the Shenyang-Haikou Expressway southern of Shanghai in Zhejiang province, the official Xinhua News Agency stated, referring local authorities. Another explosion happened when the truck fell onto a factory workshop, Xinhua stated.

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The Wenling city government information office announced on its social media account that houses and workshops collapsed and 189 people were treated at six hospitals. A worker at a nearby restaurant said Xinhua that the explosion smashed the windows of her home, but that her mother and brother were uninjured.

The cause of the tragedy is under investigation, media stated. The government commission accountable for safety production summoned for the investigation be accomplished within a certain time, state media informed, without defining the period. The report said the commission called for traffic police to step up law enforcement concentrating on vehicles such as those carrying dangerous chemicals.