Police enter the scene
after a gas explosion on the second floor of a demolished building
near Jinmao Tower in Pudong this morning. [Photo: Shanghai
Daily]
Five people were injured in an explosion and a subsequent fire
caused by a gas leak near Shanghai's iconic Jinmao Tower in the
city's Pudong New Area on Thursday.
The blast occurred at about 10?AM inside a vacant
two-storey building slated for demolition about 30 meters from the
tower, causing an open fire, the local public security bureau
said.
The five injured, who are all recovering in hospital, included a
shop owner and four passersby. A glass door of the 88-storey Jinmao
Tower, currently the second tallest on the Chinese mainland,
shattered.
The fire was put out in half an hour.
Preliminary investigations show the accident was caused by a gas
leak from a pipeline passing through the two-storey building.
People look at the
aftermath of a gas explosion near Shanghai's landmark Jinmao Tower
in Pudong New Area this morning. [Photo: Shanghai
Daily]
Windows of a restaurant are
shattered after a gas explosion on the second floor of a demolished
building near Jinmao Tower in Pudong this morning. [Photo:
Shanghai Daily]
(Xinhua News Agency January 17, 2008)
