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An explosion in a Sinopec Corp oil pipeline killed 35 people in Qingdao in eastern China on Friday, causing a blaze that took several hours to bring under control and halting operations at a major oil port, media and ship brokers said.
The explosion in the underground pipeline caused a huge hole to appear in the roadway above and state television showed a truck that had fallen into it, with a residential apartment block in the background.
The Huangdao oil terminal in Qingdao had stopped operations, ship brokers and a port official said.
The local government said on its microblog that the blast happened at 10:30 a.m. (9:30 p.m. ET) as workers were trying to repair leaks in the pipeline. It said oil had spilled into the port, which had also caught fire.
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The explosion in the underground pipeline caused a huge hole to appear in the roadway above and state television showed a truck that had fallen into it, with a residential apartment block in the background.
The Huangdao oil terminal in Qingdao had stopped operations, ship brokers and a port official said.
The local government said on its microblog that the blast happened at 10:30 a.m. (9:30 p.m. ET) as workers were trying to repair leaks in the pipeline. It said oil had spilled into the port, which had also caught fire.
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