Two killed, three injured in China food company's boiler blast
2008-06-14 02:35:39 GMT 2008-06-14 10:35:39 (Beijing Time) Xinhua English
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YINCHUAN, June 14 (Xinhua) -- Two workers were killed and three injured after a boiler blast in a food company in northwest China's Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region, hospital sources said.
A boiler in Yishunzhai Food Co. Ltd in Yongning County exploded at around 9:40 a.m. Friday when workers were debugging it. Two were killed at the scene while three were injured.
The three were rushed to a hospital in Yinchuan, the regional capital, for emergency treatment. One of them suffered serious burns but had no life dangers, a nurse said.
The cause of the incident was still being investigated.
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