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SPP investigates fatal power plant accident

Xinhua, November 25, 2016 Adjust font size:

China's Supreme People's Procuratorate (SPP) sent staff Thursday to investigate a power plant accident that killed 74 in eastern China, it said Friday.

The victims were working at the Fengcheng Power Plant in the city of Yichun, Jiangxi Province, when a platform of the power plant's cooling tower under construction collapsed at 7 a.m. Thursday.

A further two were injured.

Thirteen people were taken into police custody after the accident. Endi