Two missing, two injured in south China biofuel plant blast
July 12, 2020
| Helena Tavares Kennedy
In China, Reuters reports that two people were missing and two injured after an explosion on Sunday at a biofuel plant in China’s Fujian province. Longyan Zhuoyue New Energy processes gutter oil into biodiesel.
The blast occurred around 10:10 a.m. (0210 GMT) at Longyan Zhuoyue New Energy Co Ltd, a Shanghai-listed biofuel producer based in the southern city of Longyan, as workers were doing maintenance, CCTV said.
Video on state television showed thick dark smoke bellowing into the sky. The fire was continuing as of 0600 GMT Sunday, as more than 100 firefighters were dispatched to the site and nearby residents had been evacuated, CCTV said.
Category: Fuels
