Taiyuan Street, Heping District, Shenyang, where the explosion site is located, is an old local commercial district, with a large number of restaurants and residential areas
Pictured: At about 8:20 a.m. on October 21, 2021, an explosion occurred at No. 222, Taiyuan South Street, Heping District, Shenyang City, causing damage to nearby buildings and affecting a bus at the scene. At present, the accident has caused 3 deaths and more than 30 injuries, the injured have been sent to the hospital for treatment, and the accident investigation and follow-up rescue work are underway. The picture shows the scene of the accident.
Wen | Liu Xing, special author of Caijing
Editor| Zhu Tao
At about 8:20 a.m. on October 21, a gas explosion accident occurred at the intersection of South Seventh Road, Taiyuan Street, Heping District, Shenyang City. At present, the accident has caused 4 deaths; 3 people have been seriously injured and the injuries are stable, 44 people have been slightly injured, all of which have been sent to the hospital for treatment; 36 hotels have been arranged to properly arrange for the people affected by the accident. The cause of the accident is under investigation.
At 17:54 on the 21st, the "Shenyang Release" reported the latest information of the explosion accident that morning. "Shenyang Release" is the official Weibo account of the Cyberspace Administration of the Shenyang Municipal Party Committee.
According to the information released earlier by the Propaganda Department of the Heping District Cpc Committee, the location of the explosion was No. 222, Taiyuan South Street, and the detonation caused damage to the nearby building, and a bus at the scene was affected.
According to the official microblog of Liaoning Fire Department, after the explosion, the local fire department immediately dispatched 25 fire trucks and 110 fire commanders and fighters to the scene. After investigation, it was preliminarily determined that the scene was an explosion in a commercial and residential building.
According to many Shenyang citizens, Taiyuan Street is an old commercial district in Shenyang, bringing together a large number of catering shops and residential quarters.
After inquiry, the commercial and residential building where the explosion occurred was close to a residential area, and there were a number of restaurants in the building.
According to the video at the scene of the explosion, the explosion triggered a huge mushroom cloud, and smoke billowed from the scene. There was a mess near the blast site, with one bus and some private cars damaged, and some buildings exposed and badly damaged. A citizen who works in the street adjacent to the blast site said she heard a loud noise when the explosion occurred, and the ground shook like an earthquake.
The explosion also caused the glass of doors and windows of many surrounding shops and residential buildings to be shattered, and the supply of water and electricity was suspended. A netizen who lives in a community near the explosion site posted on Weibo that her home has been cut off from water and electricity, and there is little left of the window glass of the upper and opposite buildings. According to another Xinhua news agency reporter from the State Grid Shenyang Power Supply Company, the explosion caused damage to the power grid line, and more than 15,000 nearby residents lost power.
CCTV News quoted the Shenyang gas department as saying that on the evening of the 20th, the municipal gas pipeline near the explosion point was repaired, and the hotel where the accident occurred was in a state of gas suspension, and the gas supply was restored on the morning of the 21st.
After inquiry, it was found that most of the communities near the explosion site were built at the end of the last century and the beginning of this century, which has a history of more than 20 years.
Public reports show that there have been two previous explosions near Taiyuan Street.
On May 1, 2012, an explosion occurred at a ginseng mushroom franchise store in Taiyuan Street, Heping District, Shenyang City, injuring eight people.
On March 4, 2013, a gas leak occurred at the construction site of Zhonghua Road, Taiyuan Street, Heping District, Shenyang City, causing a deflagration, causing more than 20 injuries.
According to the news released by China Construction News, after the explosion, the working group of the Ministry of Housing and Urban-Rural Development has set off to the scene of the accident.
Wang Menghui, minister of housing and urban-rural development, demanded that the accident be quickly understood, and that personnel be immediately dispatched to the scene to guide and help the local government to do a good job in searching and rescuing personnel and treating the wounded, find out the cause of the accident and deal with it in accordance with laws and regulations. Further guide and urge all localities to deeply learn lessons, in accordance with the existing work arrangements, solidly carry out special inspections and rectification of gas safety hazards, resolutely eliminate potential safety hazards, effectively curb the occurrence of gas safety accidents, and ensure the safety of people's lives and property.
On September 11, 2021, a liquefied gas tank in a household in Pulandian District, Dalian City, Liaoning Province, leaked and caused an explosion, killing 8 people and injuring 5 people.
Earlier, on June 13, a major gas explosion occurred at the Yanhu Community Bazaar in Zhangwan District, Shiyan City, Hubei Province, killing 26 people and injuring 138 others, including 37 seriously injured.
After investigation by the accident investigation team, the direct cause of the accident was the serious corrosion and rupture of the medium-pressure steel pipe of natural gas, the leakage of natural gas gathered in the closed space of the river channel below the building, and the explosion of the exhaust fume pipe of the catering business occurred. The accident exposed the hidden dangers caused by illegal construction, the long-term failure to check and rectify hidden dangers, the chaos of property management, and the improper handling of on-site emergency response.
The accident was identified as a major production safety liability accident, and 34 public employees, including 11 provincial management cadres, were dismissed from their posts and dismissed from their posts. Another 11 relevant responsible persons were suspected of committing crimes and were taken criminal measures by the public security organs.
The day after the Shiyan explosion accident, the Office of the State Council Safety Commission and the Ministry of Emergency Management held a national video conference on safety precautions, emphasizing the need to "deeply learn the lessons of the Shiyan gas explosion accident in Hubei Province."