Liu Yi, chief reporter of Jimu News
According to CCTV news, at 12:10 noon on January 7, the canteen of the Fengshan Street Office in Wulong District, Chongqing City collapsed, and the suspected gas leak in the canteen exploded. It is understood that 26 people were trapped at the scene. As of 23:05 on the 7th, 26 people were searched and rescued, of which 16 died, and the rest of the personnel are being fully rescued.
Accident scene
According to Chongqing Daily, after the accident, Chen Miner, secretary of the Chongqing Municipal CPC Committee, and Hu Henghua, deputy secretary of the Chongqing Municipal CPC Committee and acting mayor, immediately made arrangements for the rescue and disposal work, demanding that the trapped people be searched and rescued as quickly as possible, that all efforts be made to treat the injured, that secondary disasters be strictly prevented, and that they rush to the scene to direct and dispatch.
The Chongqing Municipal Party Committee and the Chongqing Municipal Government set up an on-site emergency response command center. The relevant departments of the city and district quickly launched emergency plans, and organized rescue forces such as emergency response, public security, fire protection, health and health, housing construction, and militia to quickly rush to the scene to carry out rescue. The Ministry of Emergency Management sent a working group to the scene to guide the disposal.
On the evening of the 7th, a relative of the victim told Jimu News that the deceased was his niece and son-in-law, more than 40 years old, working in the armed forces department of the street office, with three children, the eldest was in high school, and the youngest child was only one year old. In the explosion, his fatal wounds were mainly on the head and face. The niece fainted from grief when she heard of her husband's misfortune, and the family now takes turns to take care of her at the hotel. According to this relative, the collapsed canteen was built 20 or 30 years ago, and is a two-story brick-concrete structure with an area of tens of square meters on the first floor. The rescued are still in hospital. According to locals, the location of the street office was originally an office building of a certain unit, and later the unit moved away, and the street office moved in.
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