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New fires have repeatedly broken out on the site, which is scattered with smouldering chemicals and flammable substances, the official Xinhua news agency said.

The death toll from the Tianjin warehouse explosions rises to 135 as of Tuesday afternoon, according to the latest data from rescue authorities.

The explosion was caused when canisters containing a chemical used to produce nylon burst, the Shandong Fire Control Department said on its official microblog. No fatalities have been reported.

More than a week after two massive explosions at a chemical warehouse tore into the northeastern Chinese port of Tianjin, officials are still trying to work out how safe is the city’s air, its earth and its water.

Authorities warned that cyanide levels in the waters around the Tianjin Port explosion site have risen to as much as 356 times acceptable levels although they declared that the city’s drinking water is safe.

A total of 150 firefighters from the city’s fire brigade are battling the blaze.

Fires broke out at the blast site in the Chinese port city at 11:40 a.m. local time Saturday, according to state news agency Xinhua.

Renault said that almost 1500 of its imported cars stored in a warehouse at the port had been burned while Toyota said the blasts broke windows at its vehicle assembly, logistics, and research buildings, which are jointly run with China’s FAW Group.

The Tianhe-1A, however, managed to continue running smoothly, following the blast, Xinhua said on Thursday.

Among the dead were at least a dozen firefighters while around 700 people were injured, including more than 70 seriously hurt.

A series of huge explosions shook the northern Chinese city of Tianjin late Wednesday, killing 17 people and injuring more than 300, according to officials and state media.

A massive explosion late Wednesday shook the northern Chinese city of Tianjin, startling nearby residents with tremors and noise, but it was not known immediately if there were any casualties, according to state media.

Authorities in southeast China ordered the evacuation of about 158,000 people and ships back to port ahead of the typhoon, which was expected to hit Fujian province on Saturday.

The Tropical Storm Risk website downgraded the typhoon to a category 1 storm by Saturday afternoon, on a scale of 1 to 5, and indicated it could weaken as it moves toward the Chinese province of Fujian, which it is due to hit late on Saturday. All of the villagers had been...

Typhoon Soudelor hit China’s east coast on Sunday, killing 14 people and forcing the authorities to evacuate hundreds of thousands more.