{"id":329861,"date":"2026-05-06T01:29:42","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T19:59:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/?p=329861"},"modified":"2026-05-06T01:29:42","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T19:59:42","slug":"at-the-least-26-dead-61-injured-in-chinese-fireworks-factory-explosion-national","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ebiztoday.news\/index.php\/2026\/05\/06\/at-the-least-26-dead-61-injured-in-chinese-fireworks-factory-explosion-national\/","title":{"rendered":"At the least 26 dead, 61 injured in Chinese fireworks factory explosion &#8211; National"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>At the least 26 persons are dead, and 61 others are injured after an explosion at a fireworks factory in China that forced it to shut down its manufacturing operations, the Associated Press and Reuters reported.<\/p>\n<p>The blast occurred at a fireworks plant in the town of Changsha in Hunan province on Monday afternoon, each agencies reported.<\/p>\n<div 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Medical personnel and police were also sent to assist efforts, Reuters said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-inlineSignup\" data-newsletter-inline=\"\">\n<div class=\"c-inlineSignup__image\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" width=\"170\" height=\"225\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/globalnews.ca\/wp-content\/themes\/shaw-globalnews\/images\/skyline\/national.jpg\" alt=\"Get daily Canada news delivered to your inbox so you'll never miss the day's top stories.\">\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n<div class=\"c-inlineSignup__content\">\n<h2 class=\"c-inlineSignup__title\">Get each day National news<\/h2>\n<p>Get each day Canada news delivered to your inbox so you will never miss the day&#8217;s top stories.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Robots, including 18 drones, have been deployed to assist mitigate safety risks to human rescuers.<\/p>\n<p>Authorities evacuated nearby residents, citing the high risk posed by two black powder warehouses near the explosion site, Reuters added.<\/p>\n<p>Fireworks and firecracker manufacturers in Liuyang have been ordered to stop production.<\/p>\n<p>Changsha mayor Chen Bozhang said at a press conference that a search and rescue operation on the scene is essentially complete, but verification of the casualties and identification of the victims is ongoing.<\/p>\n<p>Chen said that the local government expressed condolences for the victims and apologized to the broader community, including the victims\u2019 families and people who were injured.<\/p>\n<div class=\"l-article__part\" data-shortcode=\"caption\">\n<figure class=\"c-figure c-figure--alignnone c-figure--expandable\">\n<div class=\"c-figure__inner\"><figcaption class=\"c-figure__caption c-caption\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<span class=\"c-caption__desc\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\tOn this photo released by Xinhua News Agency, this aerial drone photo taken within the early hours of May 5, 2026, shows rescuers working on the positioning after an explosion at a fireworks plant in Guandu Town of Liuyang, central China\u2019s Hunan Province.\t\t\t\t<\/span><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<cite class=\"c-caption__cite\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\tChen Sihan\/Xinhua via AP\t\t\t\t<\/cite><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"c-tabs\">\n<p>\n\t\t\t<button role=\"tab\" class=\"c-tabs__tab c-tabs__tab--active\" type=\"button\">More on Trending<\/button><br \/>\n\t\t\t<button role=\"tab\" class=\"c-tabs__tab\" type=\"button\">More videos<\/button>\n\t\t<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>\u201cWe feel extremely pained and deeply remorseful,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-ad c-ad--bigbox l-article__ad\">\n<p>Story continues below commercial<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Ding Weiming, the Changsha Emergency Management Bureau\u2019s party secretary, said the positioning houses a considerable amount of flammable products, including significant quantities of gunpowder, causing continuous random blasts and threatening the security of rescue crews.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, blown-out partitions, columns, and a collapsed roof left the positioning in ruins, trapping people and blocking exit routes, Weiming said.<\/p>\n<p>Chinese President Xi Jinping urged \u201call-out efforts\u201d within the seek for those still unaccounted for and ordered more practical risk screening and hazard controls, in addition to stronger public safety management systems, the AP reported.<\/p>\n<p>Liuyang has a protracted history of fireworks production. The Guinness World Records organization said that the primary accurately documented firework, the Chinese firecracker, was attributed to Li Tian, a monk who lived near Liuyang during China\u2019s Tang dynasty, dating to around 618 to 907 C.E.<\/p>\n<p>Li discovered that putting gunpowder in enclosed hole bamboo stems produced loud explosions, and sure crackers together to make the normal Recent Yr firecrackers that drive out evil spirits, Guinness said.<\/p>\n<p>China\u00a0is not any stranger to\u00a0fireworks\u00a0and industrial accidents. In June last 12 months, an explosion at a\u00a0fireworks\u00a0factory in Hunan province killed nine people and injured 26.<\/p>\n<p>Last 12 months,\u00a0China\u00a0exported $1.14 billion value of\u00a0fireworks, greater than two-thirds of worldwide sales data from the Observatory of Economic Complexity showed.<\/p>\n<div class=\"c-ad c-ad--bigbox l-article__ad\">\n<p>Story continues below commercial<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em>\u2013with files from the Associated Press and Reuters<\/em><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<p>\n\t\t&#038;copy 2026 Global News, a division of Corus Entertainment Inc.\t<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At the least 26 persons are dead, and 61 others are injured after an explosion at a fireworks factory in China that forced it to shut down its manufacturing operations, the Associated Press and Reuters reported. 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