CHINA, Dec 1 (China Daily/ANN) - Courts in Yancheng, Jiangsu province, on Monday sentenced 53 people to prison over a chemical plant explosion that claimed 78 lives and seriously injured 76 in March last year.
The explosion took place on March 21 at the Jiangsu Tianjiayi Chemical Company, located in a chemical industrial park in Yancheng's Xiangshui county. It also caused the hospitalization of 640 people and an economic loss of nearly 2 billion yuan ($302 million).
