Topic: Huge Explosion In Tianjin, China (Read 5573 times)
I saw it last week on youtube it maginificent yet horrible at the time as im not sure what was happening to the people near the explotion i heard there are many casualties im not sure how many. for what i can see on the photo posted. they`ve been hit by a super typhoon like yolanda.
China Holds 12, Blames Local Officials And Companies For Tianjin Blasts
2015-08-27
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/china-holds-12-blames-local-officials-and-companies-for-tianjin-blasts-08272015113729.html
Machines clean up debris from vehicles destroyed in the blasts in Tianjin, north China, Aug. 21, 2015.
Xinhua
Authorities in the northern Chinese port city of Tianjin have arrested 12 people for "abuse of power" and "dereliction of duty" in connection with massive and fatal explosions at a hazardous chemicals warehouse that left at least 145 dead earlier this month.
China's ministry of public security in Beijing confirmed that police have formally arrested Yu Xuewei, chairman of Tianjin International Ruihai Logistics Co., which owns the ill-fated warehouse and the company's vice-chairman Dong Shexuan.
Zeng Fanqiang, "an employee with a safety evaluation firm suspected of illegally helping Ruihai acquire safety evaluation papers," was also named among the 12, the official Xinhua news agency quoted the ministry as saying.
All detainees are suspected of illegally storing dangerous materials, and Ruihai Logistics' general manager Zhi Feng and his deputy Shang Qingsen are under "residential surveillance," it said.
The move means a trial is now highly likely.
The ministry said it blames local government departments, including transportation management authorities, production safety regulatory agencies, and land and resources authorities, for the blasts, which devastated buildings up to three kilometers away and sent huge fireballs, followed by clouds of toxic cyanide gas belching into the air.
"Customs personnel of the Tianjin Customs District were found to have been slack and irresponsible in supervising the illegal dangerous chemical business run by Ruihai," the ministry said.
"The personnel involved are also suspected of illegally issuing customs clearing permits to the company and allowing it to carry out illegal business activities," it said.
Meanwhile, Tianjin Port had failed to respond to the potential safety risks and to the "illegal business" being carried out at Ruihai, the statement said.
China's propaganda ministry has ordered official media and news websites not to carry out any independent reporting into the Tianjin disaster, or its causes.
Some 700 tons of sodium cyanide was stored at the warehouse, which was destroyed when the blasts ripped through the area late on Aug. 12 as firefighters struggled to bring a blaze under control, leaving the surrounding area an ashen wasteland.
Transportation official investigated
Meanwhile, China's state prosecution service said it is investigating senior transportation ministry official Wang Jinwen for suspected abuse of power, as well as city transportation chief Wu Dai, and Zheng Qingyue, president of Tianjin Port (Group) Co., official media reported on Thursday.
"Wang violated the law to help Tianjin Ruihai International Logistics Co. Ltd., owner of the warehouse that was the site of the blasts and allegedly handled dangerous chemicals, pass safety evaluations and obtain approvals to handle hazardous materials," Xinhua quoted the Supreme People's Procuratorate as saying.
Eleven officials have been placed under compulsive measures, which include summons by force, bail, residential surveillance, detention and arrest, it said.
China has dispatched chemical defense troops and experts to the scene of the blasts, which also left 28 people still unaccounted for and 474 still in hospital, according to social media posts by Tianjin government departments.
China has an appalling industrial safety record, which activists say is due to close ties between businesses and corrupt government officials who turn a blind eye to infractions.
A Tianjin resident surnamed Ma said he hoped the disaster would lead to more oversight and the pursuit of corrupt officials.
"What is being investigated now is what's on the surface," Ma said.
"We don't know how far they are really getting into the details."
"They should take it all the way ... This was the product of corruption. Such a huge disaster couldn't have happened if they weren't corrupt," he said.
Smoke rises from a fire at a chemical storage warehouse in Wuhan, central China's Hubei province, Aug. 26, 2015. Credit: Local residents
Chemical factory blast in Wuhan
The arrests were announced as residents of the central city of Wuhan told RFA their neighborhood was hit by another blast at a chemical factory on Wednesday.
"A fire started in a building behind our company, and then something blew up," an employee surnamed Zhang who works at an electronics factory in the Canglongdao Industrial Development Park in Wuhan's Jiangxia district told RFA. "All of the glass in our building was shattered."
"Nobody has gone to work in the two buildings next door today," Zhang added.
A Jiangxia resident surnamed Zheng called on the authorities to investigate following reports that four people died and one person was left critically injured.
"I think this is up to the government, and that oversight is definitely needed," Zheng said. "It should be within the government's power to sort out problems like this."
An official who answered the phone at the Jiangxia district government offices didn't deny the incident had taken place.
"I'm not at the scene, so I don't know what is happening there," the official said. "You should go to the scene and find out; we don't give interviews on the phone."
An employee who answered the phone at the Shenzhen Eagle Industrial Co., which owns the building where the fire broke out, declined to comment.
"Sorry, we don't know about that here," the employee said.
Reported by Yang Fan for RFA's Mandarin Service, and by Wong Lok-to and Wen Yuqing for the Cantonese Service. Translated and written in English by Luisetta Mudie.
2015-08-27
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/china-holds-12-blames-local-officials-and-companies-for-tianjin-blasts-08272015113729.html
Machines clean up debris from vehicles destroyed in the blasts in Tianjin, north China, Aug. 21, 2015.
Xinhua
Authorities in the northern Chinese port city of Tianjin have arrested 12 people for "abuse of power" and "dereliction of duty" in connection with massive and fatal explosions at a hazardous chemicals warehouse that left at least 145 dead earlier this month.
China's ministry of public security in Beijing confirmed that police have formally arrested Yu Xuewei, chairman of Tianjin International Ruihai Logistics Co., which owns the ill-fated warehouse and the company's vice-chairman Dong Shexuan.
Zeng Fanqiang, "an employee with a safety evaluation firm suspected of illegally helping Ruihai acquire safety evaluation papers," was also named among the 12, the official Xinhua news agency quoted the ministry as saying.
All detainees are suspected of illegally storing dangerous materials, and Ruihai Logistics' general manager Zhi Feng and his deputy Shang Qingsen are under "residential surveillance," it said.
The move means a trial is now highly likely.
The ministry said it blames local government departments, including transportation management authorities, production safety regulatory agencies, and land and resources authorities, for the blasts, which devastated buildings up to three kilometers away and sent huge fireballs, followed by clouds of toxic cyanide gas belching into the air.
"Customs personnel of the Tianjin Customs District were found to have been slack and irresponsible in supervising the illegal dangerous chemical business run by Ruihai," the ministry said.
"The personnel involved are also suspected of illegally issuing customs clearing permits to the company and allowing it to carry out illegal business activities," it said.
Meanwhile, Tianjin Port had failed to respond to the potential safety risks and to the "illegal business" being carried out at Ruihai, the statement said.
China's propaganda ministry has ordered official media and news websites not to carry out any independent reporting into the Tianjin disaster, or its causes.
Some 700 tons of sodium cyanide was stored at the warehouse, which was destroyed when the blasts ripped through the area late on Aug. 12 as firefighters struggled to bring a blaze under control, leaving the surrounding area an ashen wasteland.
Transportation official investigated
Meanwhile, China's state prosecution service said it is investigating senior transportation ministry official Wang Jinwen for suspected abuse of power, as well as city transportation chief Wu Dai, and Zheng Qingyue, president of Tianjin Port (Group) Co., official media reported on Thursday.
"Wang violated the law to help Tianjin Ruihai International Logistics Co. Ltd., owner of the warehouse that was the site of the blasts and allegedly handled dangerous chemicals, pass safety evaluations and obtain approvals to handle hazardous materials," Xinhua quoted the Supreme People's Procuratorate as saying.
Eleven officials have been placed under compulsive measures, which include summons by force, bail, residential surveillance, detention and arrest, it said.
China has dispatched chemical defense troops and experts to the scene of the blasts, which also left 28 people still unaccounted for and 474 still in hospital, according to social media posts by Tianjin government departments.
China has an appalling industrial safety record, which activists say is due to close ties between businesses and corrupt government officials who turn a blind eye to infractions.
A Tianjin resident surnamed Ma said he hoped the disaster would lead to more oversight and the pursuit of corrupt officials.
"What is being investigated now is what's on the surface," Ma said.
"We don't know how far they are really getting into the details."
"They should take it all the way ... This was the product of corruption. Such a huge disaster couldn't have happened if they weren't corrupt," he said.
Smoke rises from a fire at a chemical storage warehouse in Wuhan, central China's Hubei province, Aug. 26, 2015. Credit: Local residents
Chemical factory blast in Wuhan
The arrests were announced as residents of the central city of Wuhan told RFA their neighborhood was hit by another blast at a chemical factory on Wednesday.
"A fire started in a building behind our company, and then something blew up," an employee surnamed Zhang who works at an electronics factory in the Canglongdao Industrial Development Park in Wuhan's Jiangxia district told RFA. "All of the glass in our building was shattered."
"Nobody has gone to work in the two buildings next door today," Zhang added.
A Jiangxia resident surnamed Zheng called on the authorities to investigate following reports that four people died and one person was left critically injured.
"I think this is up to the government, and that oversight is definitely needed," Zheng said. "It should be within the government's power to sort out problems like this."
An official who answered the phone at the Jiangxia district government offices didn't deny the incident had taken place.
"I'm not at the scene, so I don't know what is happening there," the official said. "You should go to the scene and find out; we don't give interviews on the phone."
An employee who answered the phone at the Shenzhen Eagle Industrial Co., which owns the building where the fire broke out, declined to comment.
"Sorry, we don't know about that here," the employee said.
Reported by Yang Fan for RFA's Mandarin Service, and by Wong Lok-to and Wen Yuqing for the Cantonese Service. Translated and written in English by Luisetta Mudie.
I watched this on the news, I was not expecting such an explosion, If you have told to me that it was an atomic blast I would have believed you. Rest in peace.
I watched this explosion videos in youtube. It looks so horrible.
I'm sorry to the victims of this massive explosion.
I'm sorry to the victims of this massive explosion.
China Jails Dissident Over Tianjin Blast Death Toll Retweet
2015-08-19
Authorities in the eastern Chinese province of Anhui have jailed veteran activist and whistle-blower Shen Liangqing on public order charges after he retweeted a social media post about last week's devastating warehouse explosions in Tianjin, his relatives told RFA.
Former state-prosecutor-turned-whistle-blower Shen Liangqing, who wrote a book detailing abuses under the ruling Chinese Communist Party's internal disciplinary regime, was handed a nine-day administrative sentence by police in the provincial capital, Hefei.
"He went downstairs to buy groceries, and when he came back, I saw three police officers following him," Shen's son Shen Li said in an interview on Wednesday.
"He took out his cell phone and gave it to me, so they didn't confiscate it," he said. "Then they left."
He said police had told him his father was being detained on suspicion of "fabricating facts and disturbing public order."
"He called me [on Tuesday] and told me to bring him some clothes and other items to the Wuhu Road police station," Shen Li said. "When I went there, he gave me the administrative detention notice."
According to the notice, Shen Liangqing retweeted a post on a social media platform on Aug. 15, 2015 which said that at least 1,400 people had died in the Tianjin explosions, while more than 700 were still missing.
"This information was not accurate," the notice said.
Charges 'unfair'
Shen Li said the charges against his father, a former prosecutor at the Hefei municipal procuratorate, were unfair.
"I don't think it amounts to fabricating information if you are just retweeting something," Shen Li said.
"The reason the tweet was not accurate was a lack of openness and transparency on the part of the government," he added.
China's propaganda ministry has ordered the country's tightly controlled media outlets to stick to officially approved news stories, which put the death toll in Tianjin at 114.
Tweets and social media messages linked to the disaster initially gave a real-time glimpse of the two devastating explosions and their aftermath, but were later tracked down and deleted by China's Internet censors.
China's draconian Internet agency, the Cyberspace Administration, said it had suspended more than 360 social media accounts since the blasts rocked Tianjin.
Shen Li said if anyone was held responsible, it should be the original poster of the offending tweet.
"I don't think that retweeting on its own should be a crime," he said. "Rumors only emerge because the government is closed and secretive. If they were more transparent, they wouldn't circulate."
An officer who answered the phone at the Wuhu Road police station in Hefei declined to comment on Shen's case.
"I don't know about this," the officer said.
No intention to deceive
Tianjin-based lawyer Liu Jia said he didn't believe Shen had done anything wrong.
"The crucial point here is that there was no intention to deceive," Liu said. "If he retweeted it in good faith, then he shouldn't bear responsibility for it."
"It's not my responsibility to try to confirm whether other people's posts are fake or fact."
Meanwhile, investigators at the party's Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI) have announced a probe into "serious discipline violations" by the director of the State Administration of Work Safety Yang Dongliang, although it didn't mention any direct connection with the Tianjin blasts.
Yang, 61, worked in Tianjin for 18 years and became a vice mayor before taking office at the work safety agency in 2012.
Xie Tian, an assistant professor at the University of South Carolina at Aiken, said Yang is likely being made to act as scapegoat so the government looks as if it is pursuing those responsible for the tragedy.
He said further environmental legislation won't help, either.
"China's laws are pretty empty because they aren't implemented," Xie said. "There is no judicial independence."
"That means that all a chemical company like that needs to start operating is the agreement of one [high-ranking] person, like the mayor or the municipal party secretary," he said.
"This is a very Chinese problem, and as long as the problems of the dictatorial system aren't addressed, more laws aren't going to be of much use."
Suspicious dealings
State media on Wednesday pointed to further suspicious dealings behind the blasts at the hazardous goods storage facility owned by Ruihai Logistics.
The owners of the company, including the son of a former municipal police chief, took steps to mask the fact that they held stakes in it, the official news agency Xinhua reported.
The agency said that Dong Shexuan, 34, owned 45 percent of Ruihai through a schoolmate so as to avoid the news of his stake "leaking."
He said he had used his connections in the police and fire departments to help the company obtain the necessary safety permits and pass inspections.
Local residents now fear the effects of toxic pollutants in the city's air and water, after officials said that around 700 tons of highly poisonous sodium cyanide were found at the site.
Tianjin Ruihai International Logistics had operated without a license for nine months until June, Xinhua said.
Chinese law requires hazardous storage facilities to be located at least 1,000 meters from public buildings, major roads, and residential units, but the Ruihai warehouse violated that rule, as there were a number of public and residential facilities within 650 meters of the site, official media reported.
Reported by Yang Fan and Shi Shan for RFA's Mandarin Service, and by Ka Pa and Wei Ling for the Cantonese Service. Translated and written in English by Luisetta Mudie.
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/retweet-08192015135855.html
2015-08-19
Authorities in the eastern Chinese province of Anhui have jailed veteran activist and whistle-blower Shen Liangqing on public order charges after he retweeted a social media post about last week's devastating warehouse explosions in Tianjin, his relatives told RFA.
Former state-prosecutor-turned-whistle-blower Shen Liangqing, who wrote a book detailing abuses under the ruling Chinese Communist Party's internal disciplinary regime, was handed a nine-day administrative sentence by police in the provincial capital, Hefei.
"He went downstairs to buy groceries, and when he came back, I saw three police officers following him," Shen's son Shen Li said in an interview on Wednesday.
"He took out his cell phone and gave it to me, so they didn't confiscate it," he said. "Then they left."
He said police had told him his father was being detained on suspicion of "fabricating facts and disturbing public order."
"He called me [on Tuesday] and told me to bring him some clothes and other items to the Wuhu Road police station," Shen Li said. "When I went there, he gave me the administrative detention notice."
According to the notice, Shen Liangqing retweeted a post on a social media platform on Aug. 15, 2015 which said that at least 1,400 people had died in the Tianjin explosions, while more than 700 were still missing.
"This information was not accurate," the notice said.
Charges 'unfair'
Shen Li said the charges against his father, a former prosecutor at the Hefei municipal procuratorate, were unfair.
"I don't think it amounts to fabricating information if you are just retweeting something," Shen Li said.
"The reason the tweet was not accurate was a lack of openness and transparency on the part of the government," he added.
China's propaganda ministry has ordered the country's tightly controlled media outlets to stick to officially approved news stories, which put the death toll in Tianjin at 114.
Tweets and social media messages linked to the disaster initially gave a real-time glimpse of the two devastating explosions and their aftermath, but were later tracked down and deleted by China's Internet censors.
China's draconian Internet agency, the Cyberspace Administration, said it had suspended more than 360 social media accounts since the blasts rocked Tianjin.
Shen Li said if anyone was held responsible, it should be the original poster of the offending tweet.
"I don't think that retweeting on its own should be a crime," he said. "Rumors only emerge because the government is closed and secretive. If they were more transparent, they wouldn't circulate."
An officer who answered the phone at the Wuhu Road police station in Hefei declined to comment on Shen's case.
"I don't know about this," the officer said.
No intention to deceive
Tianjin-based lawyer Liu Jia said he didn't believe Shen had done anything wrong.
"The crucial point here is that there was no intention to deceive," Liu said. "If he retweeted it in good faith, then he shouldn't bear responsibility for it."
"It's not my responsibility to try to confirm whether other people's posts are fake or fact."
Meanwhile, investigators at the party's Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI) have announced a probe into "serious discipline violations" by the director of the State Administration of Work Safety Yang Dongliang, although it didn't mention any direct connection with the Tianjin blasts.
Yang, 61, worked in Tianjin for 18 years and became a vice mayor before taking office at the work safety agency in 2012.
Xie Tian, an assistant professor at the University of South Carolina at Aiken, said Yang is likely being made to act as scapegoat so the government looks as if it is pursuing those responsible for the tragedy.
He said further environmental legislation won't help, either.
"China's laws are pretty empty because they aren't implemented," Xie said. "There is no judicial independence."
"That means that all a chemical company like that needs to start operating is the agreement of one [high-ranking] person, like the mayor or the municipal party secretary," he said.
"This is a very Chinese problem, and as long as the problems of the dictatorial system aren't addressed, more laws aren't going to be of much use."
Suspicious dealings
State media on Wednesday pointed to further suspicious dealings behind the blasts at the hazardous goods storage facility owned by Ruihai Logistics.
The owners of the company, including the son of a former municipal police chief, took steps to mask the fact that they held stakes in it, the official news agency Xinhua reported.
The agency said that Dong Shexuan, 34, owned 45 percent of Ruihai through a schoolmate so as to avoid the news of his stake "leaking."
He said he had used his connections in the police and fire departments to help the company obtain the necessary safety permits and pass inspections.
Local residents now fear the effects of toxic pollutants in the city's air and water, after officials said that around 700 tons of highly poisonous sodium cyanide were found at the site.
Tianjin Ruihai International Logistics had operated without a license for nine months until June, Xinhua said.
Chinese law requires hazardous storage facilities to be located at least 1,000 meters from public buildings, major roads, and residential units, but the Ruihai warehouse violated that rule, as there were a number of public and residential facilities within 650 meters of the site, official media reported.
Reported by Yang Fan and Shi Shan for RFA's Mandarin Service, and by Ka Pa and Wei Ling for the Cantonese Service. Translated and written in English by Luisetta Mudie.
http://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/retweet-08192015135855.html
kneel after Disaster
left: china
right: japan and south korea
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right: japan and south korea
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I think its because China government doesn't want to admit that disaster as their fault. If its about environment, I think there is no government want to take the responsibility for that.
kneel after Disaster
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right: japan and south korea
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9.4 kilometer away from the spot after raining
Its a big disaster, I am really shocked with this situation there. When I was young, I hope to live in China, which it was still a beautiful country with its culture. Seems industry revolution has changed all there
9.4 kilometer away from the spot after raining
found something disturbing while browsing.
source: Shanghaiist.com
The first rainfall to wash over Tianjin since a series of blasts struck a warehouse in the Binhai district last week has sparked a new wave of concern as an unidentified white foam has appeared on the streets. Some who made contact with it are reporting a burning sensation on their face and lips, while others are reporting a stinging sensation on their arms. Some have said they experienced an itchy sensation, according to a NetEase News report.
also see
Poison Rain Feared In Tianjin As Death Toll Rumored At 1,400
source: Shanghaiist.com
The first rainfall to wash over Tianjin since a series of blasts struck a warehouse in the Binhai district last week has sparked a new wave of concern as an unidentified white foam has appeared on the streets. Some who made contact with it are reporting a burning sensation on their face and lips, while others are reporting a stinging sensation on their arms. Some have said they experienced an itchy sensation, according to a NetEase News report.
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Poison Rain Feared In Tianjin As Death Toll Rumored At 1,400
photo from Chen liang
I have seen the news on CNN yesterday. There is huge amount of destruction happened due to blast. There were lots of new Cars damaged. Toyota has to shut down its plant. There plant was close to the Blast site. Car Industry is going to get affected. Lets hope the best!!
found something disturbing while browsing.
source: Shanghaiist.com
The first rainfall to wash over Tianjin since a series of blasts struck a warehouse in the Binhai district last week has sparked a new wave of concern as an unidentified white foam has appeared on the streets. Some who made contact with it are reporting a burning sensation on their face and lips, while others are reporting a stinging sensation on their arms. Some have said they experienced an itchy sensation, according to a NetEase News report.
also see
Poison Rain Feared In Tianjin As Death Toll Rumored At 1,400
source: Shanghaiist.com
The first rainfall to wash over Tianjin since a series of blasts struck a warehouse in the Binhai district last week has sparked a new wave of concern as an unidentified white foam has appeared on the streets. Some who made contact with it are reporting a burning sensation on their face and lips, while others are reporting a stinging sensation on their arms. Some have said they experienced an itchy sensation, according to a NetEase News report.
also see
Poison Rain Feared In Tianjin As Death Toll Rumored At 1,400
photo from Chen liang
rt @rosetangy Ex-state prosecutor Shen Liangqing @sliangq detained 9 days in Hefei 4 tweeting a #TianjinBlast casualties news story
found something disturbing while browsing.
source: Shanghaiist.com
The first rainfall to wash over Tianjin since a series of blasts struck a warehouse in the Binhai district last week has sparked a new wave of concern as an unidentified white foam has appeared on the streets. Some who made contact with it are reporting a burning sensation on their face and lips, while others are reporting a stinging sensation on their arms. Some have said they experienced an itchy sensation, according to a NetEase News report.
also see
Poison Rain Feared In Tianjin As Death Toll Rumored At 1,400
source: Shanghaiist.com
The first rainfall to wash over Tianjin since a series of blasts struck a warehouse in the Binhai district last week has sparked a new wave of concern as an unidentified white foam has appeared on the streets. Some who made contact with it are reporting a burning sensation on their face and lips, while others are reporting a stinging sensation on their arms. Some have said they experienced an itchy sensation, according to a NetEase News report.
also see
Poison Rain Feared In Tianjin As Death Toll Rumored At 1,400
photo from Chen liang
One Week On, China Struggles With Tianjin Blast Pollution Cleanup
2015-08-18
Tianjin residents demand compensation for homes damaged by explosion, Aug. 17, 2015.
Photo courtesy of Tianjin resident
Rescue teams and environmental experts struggled amid rain on Tuesday to clean up thousands of tons of water polluted by last week's massive explosions in the northern Chinese city of Tianjin, while the city mourned the 114 people known to have died in the disaster.
Tens of thousands of tons of contaminated water is believed to remain at the warehouse and container area that were ripped apart by fires and two huge explosions, while the current downpour could make decontamination still harder, official media reported.
Water tested at eight of the 40 water monitoring stations near the blast area were found to contain excessive amounts of cyanide, with some samples containing 28.4 times more than the standard, Tianjin's chief environmental protection engineer Bao Jingling was quoted as saying.
Officials have estimated that hundreds of tons of toxic sodium cyanide were stored near the blast site, and construction teams are using a cofferdam to prevent contaminated rainwater from running off the site, state news agency Xinhua reported.
There are also fears that rain might set off chemical reactions with the scattered chemicals and release toxic gases, Bao said.
A Tianjin resident surnamed Zhao told RFA she was afraid to go outside, for fear of pollution.
"Just think what could happen when the rain hits those dangerous chemicals; a lot of them are all over the ground," Zhao said. "I have shut tight the windows and I don't open the door much."
"If there is poison in the air, a face mask is no use; I saw that on social media," she said. "If you breathe it in, you can get a chronic disease."
"We're not going out now, and anyone who gets rained on comes back and takes a shower as soon as they can; that's all we are thinking about right now," Zhao said.
Unaware of risk
According to official figures, 114 people died in the disaster, while 57 remain missing after two huge explosions ripped through the Tanggu district of the port just before midnight on Aug. 12.
Memorial ceremonies marking the seventh day since the deaths of the 114 people were attended by officials in Tianjin, while the city was decked out in white mourning flowers and echoed with sirens on Tuesday.
Meanwhile, local residents are still in shock at the scale of the potential hazards to their lives and health.
"Nobody thought that they would put dangerous chemicals so close to a residential area," a resident of Tanggu told RFA on Tuesday.
"I'm pretty worried now," he said.
A resident surnamed Wang said he had no idea how hazardous the warehouse area could be.
"I didn't realize how very dangerous this was until this happened," Wang said. "There was a bomb right next to me."
He said the blast had shaken up people who might otherwise have been apathetic about the risk.
"We want to be able to supervise what the government is doing ... and we want to live in an environment that is guaranteed safe. But it's not we who decides these things," Wang said.
"We have no power to pursue them, and if we start to criticize the government, or blow the whistle on them, then they will treat us like the enemy," he said.
"All we can do is accept orders from on high."
Clampdown on reporting
The ruling Chinese Communist Party has clamped down on reporting of the disaster, ordering state-run media to stick to officially approved news stories, deleting tweets, and shuttering social media accounts deemed to be "spreading rumors" about the Tianjin explosions.
According to David Bandurski, researcher at the Hong Kong University's China Media Project, some 35 million people were watching the Twitter-like hashtag #Tianjinexplosion on Sina Weibo as the tragedy unfolded and citizens posted dramatic and often graphic images of the devastation on the ground.
"The primary objective of China’s leadership can be summed up in a single phrase: 'Do not do reports of a reflective nature,'" Bandurski wrote in an article on Medium.com.
While many Chinese reporters have risked life and limb to get closer to the story, any reporting that addresses who is responsible, why the disaster occurred, and how safety measures failed is off limits, Bandurski said.
A Tanggu resident surnamed Chen said that people were completely unaware they were living so close to such dangerous chemicals.
"What exactly went on with these explosions? Why were such dangerous goods held there?" Chen said.
"We had to run for our lives, and we escaped, but we were nearly finished," he said. "Our apartment complex and our building has collapsed."
"But for every question asked, they just say three 'don't knows'. It doesn't matter who you ask."
"This was the government's job, and it didn't do its job. They are just passing the buck, acting irresponsibly. How could this happen?"
Warehouse executives held
Currently, the official narrative appears to be focusing on the bosses at warehouse owner Ruihai Logistics and local municipal officials as mainly to blame for the disaster.
Police are holding 10 Ruihai executives, including the CEO, while the head of the national work safety watchdog Yang Dongliang has been put under internal party investigation for "severe discipline violations."
Relatives of the missing said they still haven't had any detailed news of their loved ones' fate.
"They just said they'll inform us as soon as they have news," the sister of missing man Liu Tianlong told RFA.
"We asked for a meeting but they didn't do that."
Reported by Yang Fan and Xin Lin for RFA's Mandarin Service, and by Wen Yuqing for the Cantonese Service. Translated and written in English by Luisetta Mudie.
2015-08-18
Tianjin residents demand compensation for homes damaged by explosion, Aug. 17, 2015.
Photo courtesy of Tianjin resident
Rescue teams and environmental experts struggled amid rain on Tuesday to clean up thousands of tons of water polluted by last week's massive explosions in the northern Chinese city of Tianjin, while the city mourned the 114 people known to have died in the disaster.
Tens of thousands of tons of contaminated water is believed to remain at the warehouse and container area that were ripped apart by fires and two huge explosions, while the current downpour could make decontamination still harder, official media reported.
Water tested at eight of the 40 water monitoring stations near the blast area were found to contain excessive amounts of cyanide, with some samples containing 28.4 times more than the standard, Tianjin's chief environmental protection engineer Bao Jingling was quoted as saying.
Officials have estimated that hundreds of tons of toxic sodium cyanide were stored near the blast site, and construction teams are using a cofferdam to prevent contaminated rainwater from running off the site, state news agency Xinhua reported.
There are also fears that rain might set off chemical reactions with the scattered chemicals and release toxic gases, Bao said.
A Tianjin resident surnamed Zhao told RFA she was afraid to go outside, for fear of pollution.
"Just think what could happen when the rain hits those dangerous chemicals; a lot of them are all over the ground," Zhao said. "I have shut tight the windows and I don't open the door much."
"If there is poison in the air, a face mask is no use; I saw that on social media," she said. "If you breathe it in, you can get a chronic disease."
"We're not going out now, and anyone who gets rained on comes back and takes a shower as soon as they can; that's all we are thinking about right now," Zhao said.
Unaware of risk
According to official figures, 114 people died in the disaster, while 57 remain missing after two huge explosions ripped through the Tanggu district of the port just before midnight on Aug. 12.
Memorial ceremonies marking the seventh day since the deaths of the 114 people were attended by officials in Tianjin, while the city was decked out in white mourning flowers and echoed with sirens on Tuesday.
Meanwhile, local residents are still in shock at the scale of the potential hazards to their lives and health.
"Nobody thought that they would put dangerous chemicals so close to a residential area," a resident of Tanggu told RFA on Tuesday.
"I'm pretty worried now," he said.
A resident surnamed Wang said he had no idea how hazardous the warehouse area could be.
"I didn't realize how very dangerous this was until this happened," Wang said. "There was a bomb right next to me."
He said the blast had shaken up people who might otherwise have been apathetic about the risk.
"We want to be able to supervise what the government is doing ... and we want to live in an environment that is guaranteed safe. But it's not we who decides these things," Wang said.
"We have no power to pursue them, and if we start to criticize the government, or blow the whistle on them, then they will treat us like the enemy," he said.
"All we can do is accept orders from on high."
Clampdown on reporting
The ruling Chinese Communist Party has clamped down on reporting of the disaster, ordering state-run media to stick to officially approved news stories, deleting tweets, and shuttering social media accounts deemed to be "spreading rumors" about the Tianjin explosions.
According to David Bandurski, researcher at the Hong Kong University's China Media Project, some 35 million people were watching the Twitter-like hashtag #Tianjinexplosion on Sina Weibo as the tragedy unfolded and citizens posted dramatic and often graphic images of the devastation on the ground.
"The primary objective of China’s leadership can be summed up in a single phrase: 'Do not do reports of a reflective nature,'" Bandurski wrote in an article on Medium.com.
While many Chinese reporters have risked life and limb to get closer to the story, any reporting that addresses who is responsible, why the disaster occurred, and how safety measures failed is off limits, Bandurski said.
A Tanggu resident surnamed Chen said that people were completely unaware they were living so close to such dangerous chemicals.
"What exactly went on with these explosions? Why were such dangerous goods held there?" Chen said.
"We had to run for our lives, and we escaped, but we were nearly finished," he said. "Our apartment complex and our building has collapsed."
"But for every question asked, they just say three 'don't knows'. It doesn't matter who you ask."
"This was the government's job, and it didn't do its job. They are just passing the buck, acting irresponsibly. How could this happen?"
Warehouse executives held
Currently, the official narrative appears to be focusing on the bosses at warehouse owner Ruihai Logistics and local municipal officials as mainly to blame for the disaster.
Police are holding 10 Ruihai executives, including the CEO, while the head of the national work safety watchdog Yang Dongliang has been put under internal party investigation for "severe discipline violations."
Relatives of the missing said they still haven't had any detailed news of their loved ones' fate.
"They just said they'll inform us as soon as they have news," the sister of missing man Liu Tianlong told RFA.
"We asked for a meeting but they didn't do that."
Reported by Yang Fan and Xin Lin for RFA's Mandarin Service, and by Wen Yuqing for the Cantonese Service. Translated and written in English by Luisetta Mudie.
found something disturbing while browsing.
source: Shanghaiist.com
The first rainfall to wash over Tianjin since a series of blasts struck a warehouse in the Binhai district last week has sparked a new wave of concern as an unidentified white foam has appeared on the streets. Some who made contact with it are reporting a burning sensation on their face and lips, while others are reporting a stinging sensation on their arms. Some have said they experienced an itchy sensation, according to a NetEase News report.
also see
Poison Rain Feared In Tianjin As Death Toll Rumored At 1,400
source: Shanghaiist.com
The first rainfall to wash over Tianjin since a series of blasts struck a warehouse in the Binhai district last week has sparked a new wave of concern as an unidentified white foam has appeared on the streets. Some who made contact with it are reporting a burning sensation on their face and lips, while others are reporting a stinging sensation on their arms. Some have said they experienced an itchy sensation, according to a NetEase News report.
also see
Poison Rain Feared In Tianjin As Death Toll Rumored At 1,400
I find it very funny how similar the wording is between this and how America phrases what it does to "protect the public".
Yet everyone laughs at China but takes Merica seriously..
Yet everyone laughs at China but takes Merica seriously..
Well now they have a nice little swimming hole to play in...
http://bowenpress.com/news/bowen_12810.html
天津大爆炸:男子自称肇事者向当局自首
字型大小： reporter | 2015年8月18日 | 大陸, 獨家 | 2 Comments
【博闻社独家】本社独家获悉，就在当局对天津大爆炸进行紧锣密鼓调查，原因众说纷纭之时，一名37岁山西矿工自称是爆炸肇事者，17日向当局自首。当局正对他进行审查。
本社獲悉，天津大爆炸虽然已初步明确为消防人员不当灭火，使库存的金属钠遇水导致大爆炸，但是最初起火的原因为何，一直无法确认。现在这名矿工自投罗网，使案情更为复杂化。
本社驻京记者获悉，天津大爆炸原因未明，目前各政治派别，各利益团体都在利用爆炸做文章，甚至成为政治派别和利益集团肇事的借口，当局的调查也非常关注事件背后有无政治因素。
公安部刑侦专家正在对自首男子进行调查。也有消息指，这名矿工可能是有其他冤情，想博当局重视而冒名顶替。本社在北京时间18日凌晨发稿时，官方仍未公布有关消息。
a 37-years-old miner who is from SHANXI provience on 17 Aug turned himself in for tianjin blast, motivation not clear.
天津大爆炸:男子自称肇事者向当局自首
字型大小： reporter | 2015年8月18日 | 大陸, 獨家 | 2 Comments
【博闻社独家】本社独家获悉，就在当局对天津大爆炸进行紧锣密鼓调查，原因众说纷纭之时，一名37岁山西矿工自称是爆炸肇事者，17日向当局自首。当局正对他进行审查。
本社獲悉，天津大爆炸虽然已初步明确为消防人员不当灭火，使库存的金属钠遇水导致大爆炸，但是最初起火的原因为何，一直无法确认。现在这名矿工自投罗网，使案情更为复杂化。
本社驻京记者获悉，天津大爆炸原因未明，目前各政治派别，各利益团体都在利用爆炸做文章，甚至成为政治派别和利益集团肇事的借口，当局的调查也非常关注事件背后有无政治因素。
公安部刑侦专家正在对自首男子进行调查。也有消息指，这名矿工可能是有其他冤情，想博当局重视而冒名顶替。本社在北京时间18日凌晨发稿时，官方仍未公布有关消息。
a 37-years-old miner who is from SHANXI provience on 17 Aug turned himself in for tianjin blast, motivation not clear.
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