Blast kills 14 in China
Fourteen people were killed and 47 injured when a blast tore through a restaurant in northern China, state media said yesterday, with initial investigations pointing to a gas leak as the likely cause.
The explosion occurred in the city of Jinzhong in Shanxi province, which lies to the west of Beijing, on Friday evening, the official Xinhua news agency said.
Xinhua quoted local investigators as saying that 17 of the injured were in a serious condition.
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