A gas explosion occurred in a barbecue restaurant in Xingqing District, Yinchuan City, Ningxia. 38 people were searching and rescued on the spot, and one person died.
According to comprehensive reports of Xinhua News Agency and CCTV News, a gas explosion occurred at 8:40 pm on Wednesday (June 21) at the barbecue restaurant.After the scene was extinguished at 9:30 in the evening, the rescuers conducted multiple rounds of search and rescue at the scene. As of 2 am on the 22nd, 38 people were found and searched and rescued by the rescue site, and one person died.
The door of the barbecue restaurant is covered with broken glass.The people at the scene said that the gas tank on the first floor of the barbecue shop exploded first, and the natural gas pipeline on the second floor was detonated and the stairs between the floors were destroyed.
After the gas explosion accident, Liang Yanshun, Secretary of the Communist Party of China and Director of the Standing Committee of the People's Congress of the Autonomous Region, hosted a meeting of the Standing Committee in the early morning of Thursday.According to the discipline strict accountability.
The specific cause of the accident is being investigated.