Hospital blast kills 17 in China
A powerful explosion at a hospital complex in northern China's Shanxi province yesterday killed at least 17 people with up to a dozen more missing, state media and local police reported.
The incident happened at Yuanping city's Xuangang Coal Power Company's staff hospital around 2:25 am (1825 GMT Sunday), with 17 bodies found by Monday afternoon and two people seriously injured, China Central Television reported.
The explosion occurred in a garage at the hospital and damaged buildings within one square kilometre (0.4 square miles), Xinhua news agency and a local policemen said, without giving a reason for the blast.
For all latest news, follow The Daily Star's Google News channel. A doctor at the hospital, who declined to give his name, said a two-storey building which housed the garage and a small residential quarters was "completely flattened".
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