One person was killed and 21 others wounded when an blast rocked a residential area in northern Shanxi province of China, making clouds of smoke and smahsing glass in close to buildings, according to state media report on Wednesday.
The explosion happened at near 1:17 p.m. (0517 GMT) in Shanxi’s Taiyuan city, state broadcaster CCTV stated, adding the reason was being investigated.
Two individuals still missing, as per the CCTV.
Video circulating on Chinese social media Weibo, not verified by Reuters, appeared to show multiple vehicles engulfed in flames outside a building, with heavy smoke pouring from the cars and few residential windows.
According to CCTV, total of 210 firefighters and 43 fire trucks were stationed to the site.
The blast came just a day following a restaurant fire in northeastern Liaoning province of China killed 22 people. Chinese President Xi Jinping illustrate the incident as “a deeply sobering lesson”.
Liaoning officials stated on Wednesday the exact reason for the fire remained under investigation, but they had deemed unlikely a gas blast or arson, according to Reuters citing CCTV report.
The recent incidents follow a spate of similar accidents across China in current years. Prior in April, 20 individuals were killed in a fire that brust out in an apartment for the aged at a nursing home in the northern province of Hebei.