Closer Look: String of Accidents in Northeast Should Be Investigated and Explained

Three serious accidents in four days in three northeastern provinces have caused a high death toll and heavy economic losses. The frequency of accidents should bring attention to work safety hazards, and begs for open, thorough and transparent investigations.

The dark days started on May 31, when a fire engulfed China Grain Reserves Corp. barns in Heilongjiang and destroyed 40,000 tons of grains. The economic loss was in the hundreds of millions of yuan.