BEIJING: The head of China’s work safety watchdog has been sacked, state media said Wednesday, two weeks after giant explosions in one of the country’s largest ports killed 139 and injured hundreds.
Yang Dongliang, director and Communist Party chief of the State Administration of Work Safety, was fired for “suspected severe violation of discipline and the law”, according to a one-line report from the official Xinhua news agency.
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