Gas leak kills 3 at steel plant in Nanjing
By Xu Chi |
February 24, 2012, Friday
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Three workers died and another 10 were injured in a gas leak at a steel plant in Nanjing yesterday.
The accident happened at the plant, owned by Shanghai-based Baosteel Group, at lunchtime when gas leaked into a room where 13 people were working.
Three died and three were severely injured, China News Service reported. The other seven are in a stable condition.
An initial police investigation said the accident had been caused by construction workers who accidentally cut through a bolt on a board blocking the gas. The board fell down and the gas leaked out.
The plant is operated by Shanghai Meishan Iron & Steel Co, a subsidiary of Baosteel. It has not commented on the incident.
Meanwhile, journalists at the scene said they had been beaten by security guards trying to stop them from reporting the incident.
"The security guards tried to grab journalists' cameras after they arrived at the scene. One reporter called police and waited in his car, but a security guard pulled the door open and punched him in the face," Jinling Evening News said on its microblog.
The newspaper said another reporter had been hit on the head from behind and was suffering concussion.
Xu Xin, a reporter with the Jinling Evening News, put pictures online showing his lips bleeding after he claimed security guards had punched him.
Cao Lujie, a reporter with Yangtze Evening Post, was sent to hospital for treatment after he was beaten. Cao was trying to protect his camera when a guard tried to grab it and delete his photos, the newspaper's report said.
Police said they were investigating the allegations against the security guards.
Journalists in China face violence from time to time as they try to report on stories.
A search for "journalist being beaten," on Baidu.com shows nearly 1,000 video clips recording journalists being subjected to violence while trying to do their job.
On February 13, a female reporter from a Shenzhen-based newspaper was beaten by a member of Guangdong Province's political advisory body who had refused to answer her question.
The accident happened at the plant, owned by Shanghai-based Baosteel Group, at lunchtime when gas leaked into a room where 13 people were working.
Three died and three were severely injured, China News Service reported. The other seven are in a stable condition.
An initial police investigation said the accident had been caused by construction workers who accidentally cut through a bolt on a board blocking the gas. The board fell down and the gas leaked out.
The plant is operated by Shanghai Meishan Iron & Steel Co, a subsidiary of Baosteel. It has not commented on the incident.
Meanwhile, journalists at the scene said they had been beaten by security guards trying to stop them from reporting the incident.
"The security guards tried to grab journalists' cameras after they arrived at the scene. One reporter called police and waited in his car, but a security guard pulled the door open and punched him in the face," Jinling Evening News said on its microblog.
The newspaper said another reporter had been hit on the head from behind and was suffering concussion.
Xu Xin, a reporter with the Jinling Evening News, put pictures online showing his lips bleeding after he claimed security guards had punched him.
Cao Lujie, a reporter with Yangtze Evening Post, was sent to hospital for treatment after he was beaten. Cao was trying to protect his camera when a guard tried to grab it and delete his photos, the newspaper's report said.
Police said they were investigating the allegations against the security guards.
Journalists in China face violence from time to time as they try to report on stories.
A search for "journalist being beaten," on Baidu.com shows nearly 1,000 video clips recording journalists being subjected to violence while trying to do their job.
On February 13, a female reporter from a Shenzhen-based newspaper was beaten by a member of Guangdong Province's political advisory body who had refused to answer her question.
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