{"id":97469,"date":"2026-05-09T11:52:54","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T06:52:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/?p=97469"},"modified":"2026-05-09T11:52:54","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T06:52:54","slug":"37-killed-in-fireworks-factory-blast-in-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/37-killed-in-fireworks-factory-blast-in-china\/","title":{"rendered":"37 killed in fireworks factory blast in China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Investigation into the incident launched; police summon eight people for questioning on suspicion, says state media<br \/>\nHunan<br \/>\nThe death toll has risen to 37 from 26 and one person remains missing after a fireworks factory explosion in the southern Chinese province of Hunan, state news agency Xinhua said on Friday, in the deadliest blast reported in China since 2019.<br \/>\nThe explosion happened at around 4:40pm (0840 GMT) on Monday in Hunan\u2019s Liuyang, known as China\u2019s fireworks capital because it manufactures 60% of the domestic supply of the devices and about 70% of exports.<br \/>\nXinhua said on-site research and rescue work has been completed, and 51 people are being treated at hospitals.<br \/>\nAn investigation into the incident has been launched and police have summoned eight people for questioning on suspicion of causing the deadly explosion, state media said.<br \/>\nThe probe is under supervision of China\u2019s top prosecutors while Hunan has ordered the suspension of operations for all fireworks plants in the city for safety inspections.<br \/>\nIn June, an explosion at a fireworks factory in Hunan killed nine people. In 2019, a chemical plant blast in the eastern Chinese province of Jiangsu left 78 people dead.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Investigation into the incident launched; police summon eight people for questioning on suspicion, says state media Hunan The death toll has risen to 37 from 26 and one person remains missing after a fireworks factory explosion in the southern Chinese province of Hunan, state news agency Xinhua said on Friday, in the deadliest blast reported &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":97476,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-97469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=97469"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97469\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":97491,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97469\/revisions\/97491"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97476"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nabanews.pk\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}