Off the wire
• Chinese Premier vows to deepen reforms  • (Recast)Urgent: One confirmed dead after low crane collapses in lower Manhattan  • 2nd LD Writethru: At least 36 killed when bus plunges into river in W. India  • Xinhua world news summary at 1530 GMT, Feb. 5  • Figures on Chinese entrepreneurship in 2015  • Results of CBA league  • Final Standings of CBA league  • Vietnamese plane experiences in-flight incident, one injured  • Ethiopian engineer hails experience with Chinese company  • BiH former security minister indicted  
You are here: 　 Home

25 Tianjin blast officials face prosecution

Xinhua, February 5, 2016 Adjust font size:

Twenty-five officials will face prosecution for their roles in the deadly Tianjin warehouse explosions last year, the Supreme People's Procuratorate (SPP) announced on Friday, upon the conclusion of an official investigation into the incident.

The 25 are suspected of dereliction of duty, abuse of power and bribery. They include two departmental-level officials and seven at vice departmental level.

Consisting of prosecutors from the SPP and the local procuratorate of Tianjin Municipality, the investigatory team found the accident exposed corruption, mismanagement and slack government supervision surrounding the warehouse where the explosions occurred.

On Aug. 12, two explosions ripped through a Ruihai Logistics' warehouse in Tianjin Port, killing 165 people, including 99 firefighters. Another eight people are still unaccounted for.

The explosions damaged 304 buildings, 12,428 cars and 7,533 containers. Endi