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A large fire broke out at a petrochemical plant in Shanghai

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Residents in the nearby community fled their homes after hearing loud explosion sounds and reported a pungent odor several kilometers away.

A large fire broke out at the Sinopec Shanghai Petrochemical Co. Ltd. petrochemical plant in Shanghai. This was reported by Reuters.

The fire started around 4:00 am at an ethylene glycol processing plant owned by Sinopec Shanghai Petrochemical, the state-owned oil company headquartered in an industrial park in suburban Jinshan.

One person died in the fire.

Firefighters put out the blaze, the company said in a statement posted on its Chinese social media account.

According to local media reports, residents of the nearby community fled their homes after hearing loud noises from the explosion and reported a strong smell several kilometers away.

Sinopec Shanghai has a processing capacity of 16 million tons of crude per year and 700 thousand tons of ethylene.

Remember. Earlier, a fire at a private container warehouse in the city of Chittagong in southeastern Bangladesh, which shook a powerful explosion, killed at least 40 people and injured hundreds more.

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Source: korrespondent

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