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Explosions Take Lives In China And France

by Michael McCoy
July 20, 2009 | A version of this story appeared in Volume 87, Issue 29

Five people died last week in an explosion at Luoran, a dyestuff chemicals producer located in Luoyang City in China's Henan province, according to Xinhua, the Chinese state-run news agency. More than 100 others were injured. In France, two people died when an ethylene steam cracker exploded at Total Petrochemicals' Carling-Saint-Avold site. Six others were hospitalized. The company says the accident occurred when the cracker was being restarted after a storm.

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