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A dozen fire engines and 150 firefighters extinguished the blaze about 1:50 am Sunday at the Runxing Chemical Technology Company in the Shandong province city of Zibo, the Xinhua news agency said.

“In life, you are not often confronted with these kinds of disasters, whether natural or man-made”, said Ji Tao, a doctor.

Prosecutors in Tianjin said earlier they were investigating two senior officials from Binhai district on suspicion of corruption, although they did not specify whether the charges were linked to the blasts.

According to He Shushan, vice mayor of Tianjin, as of Monday night, specialists had searched risky chemicals scattered within a radius of three kilometers around the blast site’s core area.

Residents whose homes were damaged in the explosions held another demonstration outside the venue of a press conference briefing journalists on the relief effort.