14 Jailed over Roles in Fatal Explosion at Wheel Polishing Factory

(Beijing) – Three executives and 11 government officials have been sentenced to prison terms over an explosion at a factory in 2014 that killed 146 people, state media has reported.

The disaster at Zhongrong Metal Products Co. in Kunshan, in the eastern province of Jiangsu, on August 2, 2014, killed 146 people and injured 114 others. The blast at the plant, which polished car wheels, was caused by excessive levels of metallic dust in the air, a team of inspectors sent by the State Council, the country's cabinet, found.