4 jailed over deadly factory fire
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TWO fire chiefs and two poultry farm bosses have been sentenced to prison terms of up to nine years in relation to a fire last year at a factory in northeast China’s Jilin Province that killed 121 people and injured 76 others.
The blaze in June 2013 was China’s deadliest industrial accident in five years and highlighted continuing violations of safety regulations despite recent improvements in the country’s work safety record.
Survivors described workers, mostly women, fighting through smoke and flames in the poultry processing plant to reach doors that turned out to be locked or blocked after an electrical short ignited flammable goods.
On Friday, two district courts in the provincial capital Changchun sentenced two bosses of the plant and two fire officials, Xinhua news agency reported yesterday.
Jia Yushan, chairman of Jilin Baoyuanfeng Poultry Co, was sentenced to nine years in prison and fined 1 million yuan (US$160,000) for not ensuring the working environment was safe, while former general manager Zhang Yushen was sentenced to four years for installing substandard equipment, Xinhua said.
Lu Yandong, the ex-chief of the fire department, and his deputy Liu Guicai were convicted of abuse of power and given terms of up to five-and-a-half years.
Prosecutors said earlier they had failed to carry out any serious inspections of the plant and falsified information after the fire to try and cover it up.
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