25 Killed in China Fireworks Factory Blast

Af01111-05 From Yahoo! News: “Twenty-five people were killed and nine injured at an explosion Tuesday at a fireworks factory in northern China, officials said.

Most of the victims in the blast at the Xiangliu firecracker factory in Shanxi province were young women, the official Xinhua News Agency said.

The cause of the explosion was under investigation, Xinhua said, and authorities were looking for the owner of the factory, who had fled.”

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