Internet cafe blast kills 6, injures 37 in SW China
December 5th, 2010 - 5:09 pm ICT by ANIBeijing, Dec 5 (ANI): Six people have been reportedly killed and 37 others injured in an explosion that rocked an Internet cafe in Southwest China’s Guizhou province on Saturday night.
Xinhua quoted Guizhou’s provincial public security department as saying that the explosion occurred at around 10:30 pm in an Internet cafe in the Kaili city of Miao-Dong autonomous prefecture of Qiandongnan.
According to rescuers, the powerful blast had turned the cafe into “complete ruins” and also destroyed windows of nearby residential buildings.
However local police have not yet confirmed how many people were inside when the accident happened. Moreover victims have not been identified so far as the customer registration book might have been burnt in the fire, the report said.
Dynamite experts were still investigating the site for the cause of the blast till the reports last came in. (ANI)
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