Beijing (AP) - raging fire with a poultry factory in Northeast China on Monday, trapping workers in a messy slaughterhouse and killed at least 119 people, reports and officials said.
Several dozen people also in the conflagration in the province of Jilin Mishazi Township, injured were who seemed by three early morning explosions triggered, the official Xinhua News Agency said. The provincial fire brigade on its microblog an ammonia leak attributed the blasts. The chemical is in meat processing plants under pressure as part of the cooling system.
The fire was one of the worst industrial disasters in China in recent years the death toll, which demanded the highest value since a September 2008 mining collapse, the 281 lives.
State broadcasters CCTV quoted unidentified workers as saying that the fire broke during a change of shifts, if such were 350 workers at the plant, owned by Jilin Baoyuanfeng poultry co.
It was not clear how many workers accounted for, had and a Government that he expected, increasing the death toll said, continue media official, who refused to give his name, how could recover more bodies from the charred building.
It was difficult for workers to escape, because only one door to the facility open, was cited State media while other exits were locked and the fire spread rapidly, the survivors.
Some employees triggered alarm began shortly after a shift at 06, and then the lights went out, panic as workers rushed to find an exit employees Wang Fengya, Xinhua said.
"When I finally ran, and looked back at the factory, I saw high flames," Wang was quoted, 44, words. Xinhua said that she and the other three workers in a hospital in the nearby provincial capital Changchun were sent.
Another worker, quoted by Xinhua, 39 years old Guo yan, said emergency exits on their workstation could not be opened and she was trying the workers through a side door knocked to the ground in the crush to escape.
"I could only desperately crawling forward, Guo" was quoted saying. "I was next to an old lady and a young girl, but I do not know whether she or not survive."
The newspaper southern daily, said the accident where chickens will be dismembered, were Metropolis known for its aggressive reporting on a factory floor. The newspaper reported on his microblog that the fire spread quickly, with industrial boiler explosion, and only a side entrance of the building opened up with the rest of the outputs was locked.
He quoted an unidentified worker, that the fire at the building in three minutes, so that swallowed too little time for many to flee.
The disaster killed 119 people and 54 people were in hospitals, the State Government said about his microblog is treated. Calls to the fire and emergency services rang unanswered and hospital administrators said they had no information on the injured.
By about noon, which had fire were mostly deleted from some 500 firefighters and facilities were the charred building is restored. CCTV footage emerged from the prefabricated cement structures topped with corrugated iron roofs fairways dark smoke.
Chinese President Xi Jinping and other top leaders ordered that no effort be spared to save and treat the survivors as study also with regard to the cause of the incident.
The fire highlighted to force the lax safety standards in many Chinese jobs, despite efforts to improve through regular inspections and fines.
It could to focus also renewed control on China's largest pork producer, Shuanghui international – regardless of the poultry facility - as it comes to us buy food giant Smithfield in what China's largest takeover of an American company would.
The poultry plant is one of several in the area where chickens slaughtered and then quickly cut into pieces and shipped to market. The entire process takes in near freezing conditions, and such systems are based generally with large amounts of flammable foam insulation to maintain a constant temperature.
Usually a rear seat in China features to maximize the production and energy efficiency to take Jason Yan, technical director in Beijing of the U.S. Grains Council, said security considerations.
"I'm sure that she considered some aspects of security design. But I think security for me is 'yan said. not the first priority in their design plan
Jilin Baoyuanfeng produced 67,000 tonnes of processed chicken per year and employs about 1,200 people. The facility is located outside the city of Dehui, about 800 km (500 miles) northeast of Beijing, Beijing.
Founded in 2009, the company supplies the market in 20 cities nationwide and won numerous awards for his contribution to the local economy after introductions published online.
Area, where the fire occurred, an agricultural-industrial center is specially designed for poultry. Near one of the largest producers of chickens in China, Jilin Deda co., is owned group part of Thailand-based conglomerate Charoen Pokphand.
Monday's fire beat a company that much smaller than Jilin Deda. Although it would have little effect in terms of Chinese chicken, came the accident than chicken, manufacturers sales recover were, shortly after the outbreak of a deadly new strain of avian flu, H7N9, the public in April and early may fear.
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Thus associated press writer Gillian Wong contributed to this report
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