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At least 7 people died and some 95 were injured when an explosion ripped through a town in Shaanxi province’s Fugu County in China. Four of the injured are in critical condition. Rescue operations are on. According to the China Daily, the blast occurred near a hospital in Xinmin Township.
Xinhua News Agency said the explosion occurred at 2 p.m. at a prefabricated house in a residential compound in a township of Fugu County in Yulin, a prefecture-level city in northern Shaanxi.
It said that the blast damaged or destroyed nearby buildings, including the township’s hospital, and that dozens of firefighters and rescuers were still combing the rubble for more survivors.