{"id":47142,"date":"2026-05-05T13:12:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T07:27:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=47142"},"modified":"2026-05-05T13:12:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T07:27:10","slug":"21-killed-61-injured-in-central-china-fireworks-plant-explosion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/21-killed-61-injured-in-central-china-fireworks-plant-explosion\/","title":{"rendered":"21 killed, 61 injured in central China fireworks plant explosion"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p><strong>Xinhua :<\/strong> The fireworks plant explosion on Monday in central China&#8217;s Hunan Province has left 21 people dead and 61 others injured, authorities said Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>The explosion occurred at around 4:43 p.m. Monday at the plant of Huasheng fireworks manufacturing and display company in Liuyang, a county-level city under Changsha, capital city of Hunan.<br \/>\nMore than 480 rescuers in five teams have been mobilized for the rescue, with three rescue robots deployed.<\/p>\n<p>As the explosion site is located near two black powder warehouses, the rescuers have evacuated nearby residents and set up a buffer zone to prevent a secondary accident.<\/p>\n<p>As of 8 a.m. Tuesday, the rescuers had confirmed the casualties following the first round of searching. The injured have been rushed to hospital for treatment and the second round of searching is underway.<br \/>\nThe Ministry of Emergency Management has dispatched experts to the scene to guide the emergency rescue efforts.<\/p>\n<p>The person in charge of the company has been detained by police and the cause of the accident is being investigated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Xinhua : The fireworks plant explosion on Monday in central China&#8217;s Hunan Province has left 21 people dead and 61 others injured, authorities said Tuesday. The explosion occurred at around 4:43 p.m. Monday at the plant of Huasheng fireworks manufacturing and display company in Liuyang, a county-level city under Changsha, capital city of Hunan. More [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":47143,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47142"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47142"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":47144,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47142\/revisions\/47144"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/47143"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}