Huge blasts at Chinese port kill 50

Huge blasts at Chinese port kill 50
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Two huge explosions tore through an industrial area where toxic chemicals and gas were stored in the northeast Chinese port city of Tianjin, killing at least 50 people, including at least a dozen fire fighters, officials and state media said on Thursday. At least 520 people were injured, more than 60 of them seriously, the Tianjin government said on its Weibo microblog, and the People\'s Daily newspaper said four fires were still burning.

Tianjin: Two huge explosions tore through an industrial area where toxic chemicals and gas were stored in the northeast Chinese port city of Tianjin, killing at least 50 people, including at least a dozen fire fighters, officials and state media said on Thursday. At least 520 people were injured, more than 60 of them seriously, the Tianjin government said on its Weibo microblog, and the People's Daily newspaper said four fires were still burning.

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