{"id":357408,"date":"2020-06-15T12:18:16","date_gmt":"2020-06-15T06:48:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=357408"},"modified":"2020-06-15T12:42:15","modified_gmt":"2020-06-15T07:12:15","slug":"10-killed-117-injured-in-oil-tank-truck-explosion-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/10-killed-117-injured-in-oil-tank-truck-explosion-in-china\/","title":{"rendered":"10 killed, 117 injured in oil tank truck explosion in China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing, Jun 13 (PTI) Ten people were killed and 117 others injured when an oil tank truck exploded and veered off an expressway in east China&#8217;s Zhejiang province on Saturday, local authorities said.<\/p>\n<p>The explosion, which occurred around 4:40 pm near Liangshan village in Wenling city, has caused the collapse of some nearby residential houses and factory workshops along the Shenyang-Haikou Expressway.<\/p>\n<p>Firefighters and rescuers are looking for possible missing persons in the debris, the state-run Xinhua news agency reported.<\/p>\n<p>Lu Fang, who works at a nearby restaurant, told Xinhua that she heard a loud bang and thought it was a flat tire commonly heard along the expressway. But people immediately started sharing the news of the blast in WeChat groups. Some photos and videos showed the front of a row of houses collapsed in the explosion.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beijing, Jun 13 (PTI) Ten people were killed and 117 others injured when an oil tank truck exploded and veered off an expressway in east China&#8217;s Zhejiang province on Saturday, local authorities said. The explosion, which occurred around 4:40 pm near Liangshan village in Wenling city, has caused the collapse of some nearby residential houses and factory workshops along the Shenyang-Haikou Expressway. Firefighters and rescuers are looking for possible missing persons in the debris, the state-run Xinhua news agency reported. Lu Fang, who works at a nearby restaurant, told Xinhua that she heard a loud bang and thought it was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[130,211,144],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-357408","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-the-pioneer","category-the-pioneer"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=357408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357408\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}