The remains of five workers who had gone missing in Wednesday's
explosion in the Daqing Petrochemical Subcompany, northeast China's
Heilongjiang
Province, were found inside a jar of liquid containing hydrogen
sulfide, rescuers said Saturday.
Rescuers found five bodies Friday when they went inside the jar
wearing gas masks after the jar had been fully drained up and
cleaned up.
The bodies were later confirmed to be the five maintenance
workers who had gone missing after the explosion.
The explosion was resulted from a fire ignited by a glitter
accidentally at 9:44?AM Wednesday when seven workers were
doing repairs atop the jar inside the sulfur recycling workshop of
the oil refinery. Two of them died on the spot, with the five
others missing.
The fire was put out some 70 minutes later.
Investigation is still underway for the cause of the accident,
and local environmental workers are monitoring the concentration of
hydrogen sulfide in the air in the areas adjacent to the site of
the accident in order to prevent local residents from being
poisoned.
(Xinhua News Agency October 30, 2004)