TAIPEI (Reuters) - Taiwan's Economics Minister Chang Chia-juch submitted his resignation on Thursday over an Aug. 1 gas explosion that killed 25 people, the Ministry of Economic Affairs said in a statement.
The series of blasts caused by a gas leak in Taiwan's second city of Kaohsiung injured 267 people. The explosions gutted a district in the port city packed with shops and apartment buildings.
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