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A new report investigating last year's BioLab 0fire has revealed what officials are calling a “disturbing” lack of safeguards in how the plant stored corrosive chemicals.

The main risk inside the storage facility is the chemical toxicity of uranium hexafluoride gas and fluoride compounds ...

BEIJING — A huge explosion rocked a chemical plant in China’s eastern Shandong province around noon Tuesday, killing at least five people and injuring 19, according to state broadcaster CCTV.

An explosion at a fireworks factory in the southern Chinese province of Hunan killed nine people and injured 26 others, the state-run Xinhua news agency said on Tuesday. A team from the ministry of ...

BEIJING — A huge explosion rocked a chemical plant in China’s eastern Shandong province around noon Tuesday, killing at least five people and injuring 19, according to state broadcaster CCTV.

BEIJING — A huge explosion rocked a chemical plant in China’s eastern Shandong province around noon Tuesday, killing at least five people and injuring 19, according to state broadcaster CCTV.

BEIJING — A huge explosion rocked a chemical plant in China’s eastern Shandong province around noon Tuesday, killing at least five people and injuring 19, according to state broadcaster CCTV.