KAOHSIUNG: Residents of a Taiwanese neighbourhood rocked by deadly gas explosions accused the authorities of not acting quickly enough and called for the relocation of industrial pipelines running underneath the island’s densely populated second city.
The blasts sparked massive fires which tore through Kaohsiung’s Cianjhen district late Thursday, killing at least 27 and leaving a yawning trench running for hundreds of metres down a series of major thoroughfares.
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