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Work begins at blast-damaged Tianjin train station
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Workers have begun work to dismantle a train station in north China’s Tianjin that was seriously damaged in the deadly warehouse explosions a month ago.
A new Donghailu stop on the No. 9 light-rail transit line will be built on the original site, and design work is under way, said a source with the Tianjin Binhai Mass Transit Development Co Ltd yesterday.
The five-story building, which housed an operation control center, training center and laboratory, was too badly damaged and had to come down, the source said.
More than 30 staff in the building were injured and an empty subway train was damaged in blasts which tore through a container warehouse being used to store large amounts of toxic chemicals at the Tianjin port on August 12.
The station was about 650 meters from the blast site. The subway line, which links Tianjin’s downtown area and the Binhai New Area, was suspended after the accident.
A total of 165 people, including 99 firefighters and 11 police officers, were killed. Eight people, most of them firefighters, remain missing.
More than 200 of the injured are still in hospital.
Investigators have found the site where the fire broke out and have investigated the material that led to the fire, a member of an investigation team under the State Council said.
A cleanup of the warehouse ruins has been completed, and a park will be built on the site.
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