Two dead, 7 trapped in China industrial park explosion

NANJING -- Two people died and seven remain trapped after an explosion rocked a plant at an industrial park in East China's Jiangsu province early on Saturday.

The explosion occurred at around 2:20 am at a workshop of a biotech company in the industrial park for chemical enterprises in Guannan County, according to the county's publicity office.

A fire caused by the blast has been extinguished. Rescue work is underway.