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Fourteen people were injured in a blast in south China's Guangdong Province at 8:25 p.m. Sunday. |
Fourteen people were injured in a blast in south China's Guangdong Province, local authorities confirmed Monday.
The blast occurred at 8:25 p.m. Sunday on the sidewalk outside a shop in the Humen township of Dongguan city. Fourteen people, including six men and eight women, sitting at the shop's doorstep watching TV were injured and rushed to a local hospital.
Three of them have already been discharged from the hospital while two others are in serious condition, but none of them have life-threatening injuries, according to the publicity department of the township.
The cause of the accident is being investigated.
(Xinhua News Agency May 4, 2009)
