Explosions rock chemical plant; one dead, five missing
(14 Nov 2005) SHOTLIST; 1. Wide exterior gate of chemical plant where explosion took place with fire engine driving in 2. Mid shot of chemical plant sign in Mandarin and English at gate 3. Wide of damaged chemical plant structure 4. Wide of damaged chimney 5. Wide of damaged houses next to chemical plant 6. Close-up debris on ground outside damaged houses next to chemical plant 7. Wide exterior of chemical plant showing damage, white plume of smoke billowing 8. Mid shot of workers walking over debris inside chemical plant 9. Various of damaged buildings next to chemical plant 10. SOUNDBITE: (Mandarin) Yang (only name given), worker at bus company next door to chemical plant: "It's scary, very scary, because if I worked yesterday, for sure it would be me lying in the hospital now." 11. Wide interior of Jilin Petrol Group Hospital with injured workers on beds 12. Mid shot of injured worker on bed 13. SOUNDBITE: (Mandarin) Wang Yun Zhou, chemical plant worker: "What I'm worried most about right now is that since I breathed in a lot of poisonous gas while escaping, I don't know what kind of effect it will have on my health in the future." 14. Various of injured workers in hospital STORYLINE A series of explosions at a chemical plant in China's northeast killed one person, left 23 hospitalised and forced more than 10-thousand others to flee their homes fearing contamination and more blasts, news reports said. Five people were missing. The explosions on Sunday afternoon shattered windows up to 200 metres (700 feet) away from the No. 101 Chemical Plant in the city of Jilin, newspapers and the official Xinhua News Agency said. The blasts were blamed on human error in a tower that processed benzene, a highly flammable liquid, Xinhua said, citing the company's deputy general manager. The blast caused severe damage to the plant and the surrounding buildings. The fire caused by the blast was brought under control but was still burning in some places on Monday, Xinhua said. State television on Sunday evening showed black smoke billowing into the sky. Newspaper photos on Monday showed flames from the disaster lighting up the night sky. Others showed bandaged employees of the plant lying in hospital beds. At the Jilin Central Hospital, a doctor in the emergency department said "several people with minor injuries" were brought in. They appeared to have been outside the plant and were injured by glass shards, said the doctor, who would not give his name. Jilin is about 100 kilometres (60 miles) east of the major industrial city of Changchun, the capital of Jilin province. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter: / ap_archive Facebook: / aparchives Instagram: / apnews You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...
