Shanghai: A liquefied gas cylinder exploded at a restaurant in eastern China at lunchtime on Saturday, causing a fire accident which killed 17 people.
The explosion happened just a while before noon at a small private restaurant at Wuhu city’s Jinghu district, the Wuhu city government said on its micro blog. Wuhu is a Anhui province, which is just west of Shanghai.
The food court was one of many in an alley about 50 meters(yard) long, said a worker at a rice noodles restaurant across from the one where the blast happened.
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“When the fire broke out, people from nearby restaurants rushed to the scene and used fire extinguishers to try and put it out, but there was a lot of smoke and it was quite fierce and already blocked the door,” the worker, who would only give his surname, Wang, said by telephone.
