MOSCOW (MRC) -- The fire in a chemical plant in east China's Fujian province has been finally put out, more than 2 days after blasts occurred there, reported Xinhua with reference to authorities.
According to the emergency response headquarters for the accident, the blaze in the plant of Tenglong Aromatic Hydrocarbon (Zhangzhou) Co. Ltd. on Gulei Peninsula of Zhangzhou City was extinguished at around 2:57 a.m. on Thursday after storage tanks repeatedly caught fire.
As MRC wrote before, an explosion hit part of an oil storage facility on Monday at Dragon Aromatics, an independent petrochemical producer in eastern China, at around 7 p.m. (1100 GMT). The blast happened at a pumping station for a condensate storage at the plant in Zhangzhou in Fujian province that produces paraxylene, or PX, a chemical used in making polyester fibre and plastics. Thus, oil leaked from a xylene facility in the plant caught fire and led to blasts at three nearby tanks.
A total of 29,096 people have been evacuated from the surrounding area of the chemical plant on Wednesday after repeatedly caught fire after an explosion on Monday.
Dragon Aromatics, owned by Xianglu Group, a Taiwanese petrochemical group, is one of the largest independently-run PX producers in China.
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