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Nineteen dead in gas-tanker accident in China's Zhejiang

A tanker truck explosion in southeast China killed 19 and injured 172, the state-run People’s Daily said on Sunday.

The tanker carrying liquefied petroleum gas exploded at a highway exit in Taizhou in Zhejiang province on Saturday afternoon, an earlier report said. The blast sent flames and a cloud of smoke high into the sky, state-media pictures showed.

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