AMERICANALMANAC (Melissa Gentry) - Cargo ship fire at Chinese port kills 25 during dockside repairs
A cargo ship undergoing repairs at one of China's busiest ports caught fire on Thursday, killing 25 of the 42 people aboard, the latest in a string of deadly industrial disasters that have exposed persistent safety failures across the country. The blaze broke out around 11 a.m. local time aboard the Ocean Melody, a Liberian-flagged […] The post Cargo ship fire at Chinese port kills 25 during dockside repairs appeared first on American Almanac .
A cargo ship undergoing repairs at one of China's busiest ports caught fire on Thursday, killing 25 of the 42 people aboard, the latest in a string of deadly industrial disasters that have exposed persistent safety failures across the country. The blaze broke out around 11 a.m. local time aboard the Ocean Melody, a Liberian-flagged vessel docked at the Beihai Shipbuilding Co. facility in the port city of Qingdao, in eastern China's Shandong province. Firefighters battled the fire for roughly three and a half hours before extinguishing it at approximately 2:30 p.m., CBS News reported . By then, 25 people were dead. Of the 42 people on board when the fire started, 12 were safely evacuated and five were hospitalized with injuries. Chinese…Open