Four held after masspanic leads to deaths

SHANGHAI - Four people have been detained for allegedly spreading rumors about an impending explosion that triggered panic and led to the deaths of four and the injury of three others.

A local official in Xiangshui county, in East China's Jiangsu province, confirmed the detentions on Sunday.

The apprehensions followed mass panic in the county on Thursday after residents thought poisonous gas was leaking from a chemical plant in the Chenjiagang Chemical Industry Park. The plant's neighbors believed the leaking gas was about to explode.