BEIJING, Feb 12: Four people were killed in south China’s Hainan Province in an explosion that may have been caused by an attempt to strip fireworks to make explosives for use in fishing.
Han Jinghua, deputy head of the provincial public security bureau, arrived in Baisha, a Li ethnic autonomous county, to oversee the investigation of the accident that took place yesterday afternoon.
Four people were killed while one person was injured in the incident, state-run Xinhua news agency reported.
He urged local authorities to make door-to-door checks in order to confiscate such illegal explosives made from powder contained in fireworks, as the method was catching on in the region.
Chen Liqiang, a publicity official in Baisha, said among the dead was a villager surnamed Fu and his four-year-old daughter. Fu is thought to have hired three others to make the explosives.
The police chief has asked local authorities to erect warning signs near rivers and reservoirs forbidding the use of explosives for fishing, and to prevent illegally homemade explosives from entering the market. (PTI)
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