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100s tons of hazardous cyanide detected at China blast zone

Other News Materials 16 August 2015 16:41 (UTC +04:00)
A senior Chinese military officer says hundreds of tonnes of highly poisonous cyanide were being stored at the site, where huge explosions claimed 112 lives and left 95 others missing in the port city of Tianjin.
100s tons of hazardous cyanide detected at China blast zone

A senior Chinese military officer says hundreds of tonnes of highly poisonous cyanide were being stored at the site, where huge explosions claimed 112 lives and left 95 others missing in the port city of Tianjin, PressTV reported.

Shi Luze, chief of the general staff of the Beijing military region, told a news conference on Sunday that sodium cyanide has been detected at two locations in the blasts zone.

"The volume was about several hundreds of tonnes according to preliminary estimates," he said.

The remarks came as China's state-run news outlets had initially reported that 700 tonnes of sodium cyanide were being stored at the warehouse which was hit by powerful blasts last week in the mostly industrial Binhai New Area of Tianjin, situated 120 kilometers (75 miles) east of the capital, Beijing.

The amount is said to be 70 times more than the level that a warehouse for hazardous chemicals is allowed to store at one time.

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