Original title: There was a smell of gas near the Shenyang Hotel before the explosion, and a load-bearing wall was pressed on him when one of the victims was found
Source: Elephant News reporter Wu Ziyi Zhang Ziqi
On the evening of October 21, the Elephant News reporter came to the scene of the gas deflagration accident at the “Wang Er Niu Grilled Bone Shop” located in Taiyuan South Street, Heping District, Shenyang City. The entrances on both sides of the road have been cordoned off and the local people have been placed in 36 hotels nearby. Mr. Zhang, the person who witnessed the accident, recalled the scene of the explosion in the morning, but still had lingering fears, “I flew into a catastrophe, and my son and I climbed out of the car.” According to the latest news released by Liaoning, the accident has caused 4 deaths, 3 serious injuries, and 44 people. All minor injuries were sent to the hospital for treatment.
4 people were killed and 47 were injured. There was a smell of gas near the hotel the day before the incident
On the evening of the 21st, the Elephant News reporter saw at the scene of the explosion that the windows of residents’ homes in many buildings on both sides of the road had been shattered. There were a lot of broken glass and concrete stones left over from the explosion on the road. Residential buildings and businesses all have water, power and gas outages.
A number of gas company staff members are holding instruments and carrying out inspections along the road. Many roads around the incident have been blocked by the local police. “There is already a dangerous building inside, and no one except rescuers can enter.” A community worker on duty inside the cordon told reporters.
“I heard a bang, and the whole house was shaking, just like an earthquake.” A clerk recalled in a supermarket about 200 meters from the place where the incident occurred. “Yesterday, a chess room near the Wangerniu grilled bone shop Some customers reported that they smelled a gas leak, but they didn’t expect the store to explode early this morning.”
Although the supermarket is still operating normally, most of the doors and windows on the first and second floors were shattered. The house was also in a mess. A large amount of goods were still scattered on the ground, and the large amount of broken glass falling on the table was not cleared. .
After the explosion, Shenyang City immediately launched emergency rescue, established an on-site headquarters and an accident investigation team, and quickly carried out disposal work. Relevant departments and local governments dispatched a total of 307 rescue vehicles of various types, a rescue force of 1,054 people, and 8 experts of various types to participate in the rescue. The fire search and rescue team has carried out 4 rounds of search and rescue in and around the deflagration area.
The victims crushed in the ruins died of suffocation, and the father and son were seriously injured and recalled the moment of life and death
The first floor of Shenyang Emergency Center and Heping Sub-center was crying, and the hall was full of family members of the victim, Mr. Wang (a pseudonym). The unit where Mr. Wang works is separated from the “Wang Er Niu Bone Bone Shop” only by a wall.
When the “Wang Er Niu Grilled Bone Shop” exploded, Mr. Wang had already come to work. After the incident, the load-bearing wall between the office and the hotel all collapsed, and Mr. Wang was pressed underneath. “My son was suffocated to death in the rubble. The stones and sand that entered when struggling under the wall.” Mr. Wang’s parents rushed home from the field immediately after learning the bad news. Unfortunately, they could not see their son for the last time.
The witness Mr. Zhang recounted the morning explosion to the Elephant News reporter, “I was only about 10 meters away from the Wanger Niu Bone Bone Shop.” Taiyuan South Street is the only way Mr. Zhang goes every day.
At 8 o’clock in the morning, when Mr. Zhang drove from north to south to Nanqima Road and waited for a red light, a huge explosion sounded from his right rear, “There is no response time. It will fall on our father and mother, isn’t that just a disaster.”
According to Mr. Zhang, the vehicle he was driving was bombed beyond recognition. When he climbed out of the car, he quickly dragged his son out of the car, “We were the first to escape from the scene.”
Currently, Mr. Zhang has several stitches on his hand and under his right eye, and there are many small wounds on his head and face that were injured by gravel. The son’s injury was serious and there was a lot of congestion on the right side of the face. “The doctor said that the number of stitches cannot be counted.” Mr. Zhang’s lover told reporters that the staff of the Shenyang Municipal Health and Construction Commission visited the injured people in the hospital in the afternoon and promised Give the best treatment.
At present, the accident caused 4 deaths, 3 people were seriously injured and their injuries were stable, and 44 people were slightly injured. All of them were sent to the hospital for treatment. The cause of the accident is under investigation.
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