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Two accidents kill 11 in Xi'an
By Ma Lie (China Daily)
Updated: 2004-12-09 00:42
The Xi'an municipal government is putting more emphasis on work safety after
three dozen people were injured or killed in two separate industrial accidents
this week.
On Wednesday night, the city government held a press conference on work
safety and Qiao Zheng, vice-mayor of Xi'an, called on all firms and work units
within the construction industry to pay close attention to safety.
"We would rather make less buildings than have more tragedies take place," he
said
Eleven people were killed and 25 injured in two separate incidents on
Wednesday in the capital of Northwest China's Shaanxi Province.
Eight of the injured are still in serious condition.
At 12:40 pm, 23 people riding a lift towards the roof of an auto mart in a
western suburb of Xi'an fell after one of the lift's wires broke and tilted it
to one side.
The lift's bottom platform then fell on the 23 people, killing six and
injuring 17.
The lift was carrying the guests to the roof of a recently completed
exhibition hall and had been used for construction materials. It was not
approved for people, said a local official with the municipal government.
Local official sources said the dead and the injured are all business people
and investors of the automobile repair shop. The investigation into the cause of
the incident is ongoing.
The injured were sent to two nearby hospitals and the provincial and
municipal officials called for a full investigation, said the official at a
conference on work safety held on Wednesday.
In a separate incident, five were killed and eight injured in an explosion at
3:30 pm on Wednesday in a village in Huxian County.
The explosion also destroyed nine villagers' houses.
According to preliminary investigation results, the blast was caused by the
illegal production of firecrackers, said local police.
The injured farmers were soon sent to the county's central hospital and
doctors there said three of the eight had serious injuries.
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