1,400 lives lost due to dereliction of duty

A total of 1,467 people died in the first nine months of the year in accidents caused by officials' dereliction of duty, a senior prosecutor said yesterday.

The incidents also led to 154 people being seriously injured and caused economic losses of 1.6 billion yuan ($234 million), Chen Lianfu, director of the department of anti-dereliction of duty of the Supreme People's Procuratorate (SPP), said in a press release.

Since the start of the year, prosecutors have staged a series of campaigns to bring officials to justice.