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Four sentenced for fatal east China factory blast

Xinhua, May 9, 2016 Adjust font size:

Four officials in east China's Shandong Province were sentenced to jail terms of up to 3.5 years for their responsibilities in a deadly blast at an explosives plant in Zhangqiu City in 2013, the local procuratorate said Monday.

The four are Li Naifeng, former deputy director of Jinan Economic and Information Technology Committee; Zhang Tieqiang and Sun Chengyi, another two committee officials; and Zhang Baomin, a former official at Zhangqiu's economic and information technology bureau, according to the people's procuratorate of Zhangqiu.

Li was sentenced to three years in prison suspended for four years by the people's court of Zhangqiu City in late April. Zhang Tieqiang was sentenced to three and a half years while Sun was sentenced to three years. Zhang Baomin got three years imprisonment suspended for three years.

They were convicted of dereliction of duty as they were responsible for supervision of the civil explosives industry, according to the court.

The explosion occurred on May 20, 2013 at a plant owned by Poly Explosives (Jinan) Co., Ltd. in Zhangqiu. Thirty-three people died and 19 others were injured in the accident, which also resulted in a direct economic loss of more than 54 million yuan (8.29 million U.S. dollars). Endi