Residents near a chemical plant in eastern China were taking stock of the damage to their homes after a huge and still unexplained blast killed at least five, spewed out chemicals and shattered windows as far as a kilometre away.
Plumes of black and grey smoke lingered yesterday over the plant at Gaomi, a city in the eastern province of Shandong, a day after the explosion, which the Xinhua news agency said had injured 19, with six more missing.
