China oil pipe blast: Qingdao pipeline blast 'kills 35'

[muriel_volestrangler]

Source: BBC

At least 35 people in China have been killed in an explosion after a leaking oil pipeline caught fire in the city of Qingdao, state media has reported.

Xinhua quoted officials who said that workers were trying to repair the pipeline at the time of the explosion.

Pictures of the scene showed shattered concrete slabs and black smoke rising.

More than 100 firefighters were involved in putting out the fire. It is owned by Sinopec, China's largest oil refiner.

Read more: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-china-25050300

[Berlum]

1. "We're gonna shove Keystone up America's bunghole." - RepubliWankers (R - Great White North Style)

"Screw China. Screw all of has. We are gonna do what we are gonna do. We will make a shitload of money bucks. Sneer."

- RepubliWankers (R - Great White North Style)

[madrchsod]

2. exports to china?

chinese want to build a sea level lane across Nicaragua.

geez what could go wrong with that?

[Warpy]

3. I knew a lot of people from Qingdao at one point

and I hope they're all right. It's incredibly congested in the cities and the Chinese don't often take detours with their public works like pipelines.

Factoid: Qingdao = green island.

[Nanjing to Seoul]

4. Qingdao used to be beautiful and unique. Now it's an overly congested, generic looking

Chinese city with all the issues most larger sub-provincial cities have.

Funny how on CCTV last night, this was barely mentioned. Damn those internets. CPC needs now to ramp up the filters here to block this.

Can't have the populace think they did anything wrong. . .that's a loss of face, which is worse than any loss of life.