Victims gather outside the gate of a factory in Kunshan, near Shanghai in eastern China's Jiangsu province, after an explosion on August 2, 2014 later determined to have been caused by the ignition of metal dust. - AFP/File
Shanghai (AFP) - Chinese courts have jailed 14 government officials and company executives for up to seven-and-a-half years over a 2014 factory explosion that killed 146 workers, the official Xinhua news agency reported Wednesday.
The blast was caused by the ignition of metal dust in a wheel hub polishing workshop in the eastern city of Kunshan, near commercial hub Shanghai.
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