Durch illegal gelagerte Sprengstoffe und Feuerwerkskörper kommen

jährlich Hunderte Menschen in ländlichen Gebieten Chinas ums Leben.

2010

Pucheng County in Shaanxi Province. A massive explosion in a fireworks factory has killed nine workers and wounded eight others, some of them critically. The blast reduced to ashes all the seven workshops of the Xinping Firecrackers Company. 1.1.2010

Source: "Explosion at fireworks factory in China, 9 killed", 2.1.2010, http://www.ptinews.com/news/449700_Explosion-at-fireworks-factory-in-China--9-killed

Pucheng County in Shaanxi Province. Bei einer Explosion in einer Feuerwerksfabrik wurden mindestens neun Arbeiter getötet und acht weitere verletzt. 1.1.2010

Quelle: "China: Explosion in Feuerwerksfabrik", 2.1.2010, http://www.bild.de/BILD/Newsticker/news-ticker/2010/01/02/08-china-feuerwerkskoerper.html

Anhui province. Four people, including an infant, were killed and two others injured in an explosion at an illegal workshop of firecrackers. The blast occurred in a farmer's house, destroying six rooms which stored materials for making petards and firecrackers. (The owner of the house was killed in the explosion.) 10.1.2010

Source:

"4 killed in fireworks blast in China", 11.1.2010, http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/world-news/4-killed-in-fireworks-blast-in-china_100302147.html

"Fireworks blast kills 4 in eastern China", 11.1.2010, http://finchannel.com/news_flash/World/55640_Fireworks_blast_kills_4_in_eastern_China/

Toaolin Town of Linxiang City, central-south China's Hunan Province. Three firefighters died while trying to put out fire after an explosion at Changjin Firecracker Plant. The initial accident caused no casualties, but a second blast during the rescue work buried four firefighters, of whom only one survived. No worker at the factory was harmed in the blasts. The mishap tore off the plant's roof. 26.1.2010

Source:

"Three dead in central China fireworks plant explosion", 26.1.2010, http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90776/90882/6879328.html 

"3 dead in Hunan fireworks plant explosion", 26.1.2010, http://www.shanghaidaily.com/article/?id=426957 

"Explosion at central China firecrackers plant leaves three missing", 26.1.2010, http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90776/90882/6879005.html

"Explosion at firecrackers plant leaves 3 missing", 26.1.2010, http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2010-01/26/content_9379443.htm 

"3 firefighters die in firecracker plant blast", 27.1.2010, http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90776/90882/6880070.html

"New Year fireworks take heavy toll", 20.2.2010, http://china.globaltimes.cn/society/2010-02/506324.html

Zhaohao Village of Shandai Town, in the Tumote Left Banner, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region/North China.

The death toll has risen to six from a fireworks blast as investigators announced (Saturday) January 30, 2010, the body parts that had already been found were confirmed to be those of two missing people. The accident happened (Wednesday) January 27, 2010, at a workshop of the Chunhua Fireworks Factory. Rescue workers rushed to the scene but were still unable to enter the building as sporadic explosions continued on Wednesday.

An initial investigation showed that 3 workers were confirmed dead, 11 workers escaped unhurt and eight others were injured, including one in critical condition. Investigators listed three workers as missing and feared dead. Rescuers retrieved another body from the debris of the workshop in the afternoon of (Friday) January 29, 2010.

The factory was operating without a licence and had been selling illegally manufactured fireworks for the Chinese New Year holiday, which kicks off on February 14.

Source:

"Five die in China firework factory blast", 27.1.2010, http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-world/five-die-in-china-firework-factory-blast-20100127-myx6.html 

"Fireworks explosion kills 5 in Hohhot", 27.1.2010, http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2010-01/27/content_9387195.htm 

"3 dead in N. China firework blast", 28.1.2010, http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2010-01/28/content_9387873.htm 

"Death toll from China fireworks blast rises to six", 30.1.2010, http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2010-01/30/content_9403140.htm

Some Beijing residents were treated to an unscheduled fireworks display. A truck carrying fireworks caught fire, causing multicoloured fireworks to illuminate the night sky. 30.1.2010

Source: "Unscheduled firework display in Beijing", 1.2.2010, http://english.ntdtv.com/ntdtv_en/ns_china/2010-02-01/518818909361.html

Dachang Village, Xueye Town, Laiwu City, Shandong Province/East China. Four people died and six where injured when a fireworks plant exploded at 11.20 am. 3.2.2010

Source: "Four killed in fireworks factory blast in E. China", 3.2.2010, http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2010-02/03/content_9423975.htm

Beijing. Start of the Spring Festival, or Lunar New Year: 52 people were injured in firework accidents overnight as 880,000 police and volunteers patrolled the city to help ensure safety, the Beijing News reported.

Source: "China welcomes Year of the Tiger", 13.2.2010, http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5gCQPmOiZ72CAMiWhgoPv1XKwsWlQ

Zhengding, Hebei province. The last standing wooden tower of a 1,600-year-old city gate was destroyed in a blaze ignited by fireworks. The gate was originally built in the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644) and heavily restored in 2001 at a cost of 4 million yuan ($A665,000). 18.2.2010

Source:

"Chinese new year fireworks responsible for 35 deaths", 20.2.2010, http://www.monstersandcritics.com/news/asiapacific/news/article_1535152.php/Chinese-new-year-fireworks-responsible-for-35-deaths 

"35 killed in fires across China", 20.2.2010, http://www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/Asia/Story/STIStory_492773.html

"Fireworks destroy ancient gate in China", 20.2.2010, http://news.smh.com.au/breaking-news-world/fireworks-destroy-ancient-gate-in-china-20100220-omlh.html

"New Year fireworks take heavy toll", 20.2.2010, http://china.globaltimes.cn/society/2010-02/506324.html

The Chinese tradition of setting off fireworks for the lunar new year holiday has left 35 people dead and caused millions of dollars of damage this year, state media said on February 20, 2010. A week into the traditional 15-day holiday, 7,480 fires have already been recorded with losses amounting to 28.5 million yuan (4.17 million dollars).

Source:

"Chinese new year fireworks responsible for 35 deaths", 20.2.2010, http://www.monstersandcritics.com/news/asiapacific/news/article_1535152.php/Chinese-new-year-fireworks-responsible-for-35-deaths

"35 killed in fires across China", 20.2.2010, http://www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/Asia/Story/STIStory_492773.html

China is the world's largest firework manufacturer and exporter, with thousands of fireworks companies, including numerous illegal ones, employing millions of workers and producing 45 million boxes of fireworks each year, 40 percent of which are exported.

Hunan is the largest firework-producing province in China, with more than 2,000 companies employing 500,000 people and generating 5 billion yuan in annual sales.

Source: "New Year fireworks take heavy toll", 20.2.2010, http://china.globaltimes.cn/society/2010-02/506324.html

Shiqiaotou Village, Janbu Township of Puning City, Guangdong Province/South China. Friday evening, February 26, 2010, millionaire Yang Junshu who staged a lavish but illegal fireworks show and his nephew, who operated the fireworks show, were arrested after the fireworks accidentally killed 19 people, including three members of Yang's own family and injured 50 people. Bodies of 13 people were discovered at the scene and six others died in hospital later.

The 60-year-old held the event just 30 meters away from his seven-story residence to celebrate the traditional Lantern Festival and the birth of a baby. His mother, brother and daughter-in-law were killed.

During the show, a burning firework dropped on the stockpile of fireworks and it detonated a deadly blast. The man's 1 million yuan ($146,481) home burned and eight luxury cars parked outside were damaged. Doors and windows within a 150m radius were blown out, a nearby house set alight and trees reduced to ashes in the inferno.

The man's family spent 100,000 yuan ($14,648) to stage the fireworks show this year.

A supermarket near the explosion reported property damage about 10,000 yuan ($1,464).

State broadcaster CCTV said some of the fireworks that triggered the explosion were highly dangerous and only meant to be handled by professionals.

The death toll rose to 21 by Sunday morning (28.2.), Guangdong emergency authorities said in a statement. Wednesday, March 3, the death toll has risen to 22, including five children, according to a latest online statement from the State Administration of Work Safety. Among the 48 injured in blast, seven were seriously wounded.

State media said authorities have so far identified 10 of the dead.

China has issued an urgent order to local authorities to strengthen safety measures after this deadly fireworks explosion during Chinese New Year.

Source:

"19 dead in S. China fiework-triggered blast", 27.2.2010, http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2010-02/27/content_9513149.htm 

"19 killed in firecracker explosion in China", 27.2.2010, http://shaor3.amplify.com/2010/02/27/firecracker-kills-19/ 

"20 dead, 49 injured in firework blast", 28.2.2010, http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2010-02/28/content_9514487.htm 

"China urges checks after deadly fireworks blast", 28.2.2010, http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5hN8-OztKLCKKm-zgSFWNxVcBPA8AD9E513NO3 

"Millionaire in custody after illegal fireworks show kill 21", 1.3.2010, http://china.globaltimes.cn/society/2010-03/508573.html 

"Checks ordered after fireworks deaths", 1.3.2010, http://www.straitstimes.com/BreakingNews/Asia/Story/STIStory_496324.html

"Firework blast death toll rises to 22, 3.3.2010, http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2010-03/03/content_9531180.htm

Shiqiaotou Village, Janbu Township of Puning City, Guangdong Provinz/Südchina. Eine Familie wollte das chinesische Neujahrsfest mit einem Feuerwerk krönen. Dabei kam es zu einer schweren Explosion, bei der 22 Menschen getötet und über 48 weitere verletzt wurden. Ein etwa 200 Meter entfernt wohnender Bewohner berichtete, die Explosion sei so stark gewesen, dass sogar noch in sein Haus Löcher gerissen wurden. 26.2.2010

Quelle:

"Mindestens 19 Tote bei Feuerwerksexplosion in China", 27.2.2010, http://www.zeit.de/newsticker/2010/2/27/iptc-hfk-20100227-22-24048518xml 

"19 Tote bei Feuerwerksunglück in China", 27.2.2010, http://www.orf.at/?href=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.orf.at%2Fticker%2F359917.html

 

"Fireworks deaths reach 20", 18.8.2010, http://www.china.org.cn/china/2010-08/18/content_20732948.htm

"5 punished over fireworks disaster", 19.8.2010, http://english.eastday.com/e/100819/u1a5400922.html

"China officials shut fireworks plants after blast", 19.8.2010, http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5gVu25U_TlhULQ9y8L6FgeIQJ1U6QD9HMBB500

Yichun, Provinz Hilongjiang/Nordostchina. Bei einer Explosion in einer Feuerwerksfabrik um 09.45 Uhr am 16. August 2010 kamen mindestens 19 Menschen ums Leben. Weitere 153 wurden verletzt. In der Regel arbeiteten während eines Arbeitstages 40 bis 50 Menschen in der Fabrik, aber die genaue Zahl der Arbeiter, die sich zum Zeitpunkt des Unfalls in der Fabrik befanden, war noch nicht bekannt.

Die Explosion, bei der mehrere Gebäude zerstört wurden, war noch in fünf Kilometern Entfernung spürbar. Im Umkreis von einem Kilometer zerbrachen alle Fensterscheiben. Mehr als 1700 Menschen und 62 Löschfahrzeuge versuchten, das Feuer zu löschen und nach Ueberlebenden zu suchen. Mehr als 2000 Anwohner wurden nach der Explosion evakuiert.

Am 17.8.2010 war das Feuer nach Angaben eines Sprechers soweit unter Kontrolle gebracht, aber einige Feuerwerkskörper explodierten noch weiter. Die Situation bleibt weiterhin gefährlich, da sich drei Sägewerke und ein Essstäbchenwerk in der Nähe der Feuerwerksfabrik befinden.

Zur Detonation kam es, als Arbeiter Feuerwerkskörper aus einem Lagergebäude schafften, das nach starken Regenfällen unter Wasser stand.

[à Das schreckliche Geschehen erinnert an zwei frühere  Explosionen in Feuerwerksfabriken: Am 13.5.2000 starben 23 Menschen als eine Feuerwerksfabrik in Enschede/Holland explodierte, über 950 weitere Menschen wurden verletzt. Und am 1. Februar 2008 starben 22 Menschen und über 100 weitere wurden verletzt, als eine Feuerwerksfabrik ohne Lizenz in Istanbul/Türkei explodierte.]

Quelle:

"Explosion in Feuerwerkfabrik in Nordostchina: 19 Tote", 17.8.2010, http://german.china.org.cn/china/2010-08/17/content_20728338.htm 

"Feuerwerkfabrik explodiert – 19 Tote", 17.8.2010, http://www.bild.de/BILD/news/telegramm/news-ticker,rendertext=13653344.html

"19 Tote bei Explosion in Feuerwerksfabrik in China", 17.8.2010, http://www.welt.de/vermischtes/weltgeschehen/article9045275/19-Tote-bei-Explosion-in-Feuerwerksfabrik-in-China.html

 

Qinzhou City, Lingshan County, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region/Southwest China. At least six people were killed and eleven others were injured after an explosion at a private fireworks factory at around 6 p.m. 22.8.2010

Source:

"Blast at southwest China fireworks factory kills at least six", 22.8.2010, http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/world/blast-at-southwest-china-fireworks-factory-kills-at-least-six_100416461.html

"Six die in China factory blast", 22.8.2010, http://www.beijingnews.net/story/675690

"Blast at China's firecracker factory kills six", 23.8.2010, http://news.xinhuanet.com/english2010/china/2010-08/23/c_13456752.htm 

"6 killed in explosion at Chinese firecracker factory", 22.8.2010, http://www.zeenews.com/news650105.html

2009

Weifang City in Shandong Province. At least 13 people, including women, have been killed and two others injured in an explosion at an illegal fireworks factory. The blast occurred in an abandoned kiln that was being used illegally for producing fireworks. - The police have arrested the owner of the factory. 3.1.2009

Source:

"Explosion kills 13 at fireworks factory in China", 4.1.2009, http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/001200901041611.htm

"Two blasts at illegal fireworks plants kill 14 in China over weekend", 4.1.2009, http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-01/04/content_10602522.htm 

"Blast at China fireworks factory kills 13: state media", 4.1.2009, http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5j7YVrMBZQpHXFm78f9xw2ohkPTIg

Weifang in der Provinz Shandong. Bei der Explosion in einer illegalen Feuerwerksfabrik kamen 13 Arbeiter ums Leben und zwei weitere wurden verletzt. Die Feuerwerkskörper wurden ohne Lizenz in einer verlassenen Ziegelei hergestellt. - Der Besitzer wurde festgenommen. 3.1.2009

Quelle:

"13 Tote bei Explosion in chinesischer Feuerwerksfabrik", 4.1.2009, http://de.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idDEBEE50301W20090104

"13 Tote bei Explosion in chinesischer Feuerwerksfabrik", 4.1.2009, http://www.sz-online.de/nachrichten/artikel.asp?id=2037130 

"Explosion in illegaler Feuerwerksfabrik in China", 4.1.2009, http://www.kleinezeitung.at/nachrichten/chronik/1711336/index.do

Guozhuang Town, Wuji County in north China's Hebei Province. One person died in an illegal fireworks factory blast. 4.1.2009

Source: "Two blasts at illegal fireworks plants kill 14 in China over weekend", 4.1.2009, http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-01/04/content_10602522.htm

Qingtan town of Yingde City, Guangdong province/South China. At least five people were killed and nine others were injured in an explosion at a fireworks factory. The explosion was reported at 8.30 a.m. in a privately-run workshop. 11.1.2009

Source:

"'Five killed, nine injured' in China fireworks blast", 11.1.2009, http://www.google.com/hostednews/afp/article/ALeqM5iGWHz__XClbMOWihjb2U2G16H2hw 

"Five dead, nine injured in south China firework plant explosion", 11.1.2009, http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-01/11/content_10639942.htm 

"China fireworks plant blast kills five", 11.1.2009, http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2009/01/11/China_fireworks_plant_blast_kills_five/UPI-18531231687400/ 

"Explosion kills five, injures nine at China firework plant", 11.1.2009, http://www.earthtimes.org/articles/show/249914,explosion-kills-five-injures-nine-at-china-firework-plant.html

Yanhe County, Guizhou Province/Southwest China. Six people have been killed and five others injured in an explosion at the home of a villager that was illegally used as a fireworks workshop. All the 11 people are from the same family. 23.1.2009

Source: "Six killed in explosion at fireworks workshop", 24.1.2009, http://www.china.org.cn/china/news/2009-01/24/content_17183160.htm

A total of 46 people were injured from fireworks-related accidents in Beijing on the eve of China's Spring Festival.

The municipal fireworks office said fireworks had triggered 75 fires. 25.1.2009

Source: "Beijing reports 46 firework-related injuries on Spring Festival eve", 26.1.2009, http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-01/26/content_10720669.htm

Beijing lifted a 12-year ban on firework in 2006. Since then, two deaths, more than 1,500 injuries and 2,400 fires caused by mishandled firecrackers had been reported.

Source: "Beijing reports 46 firework-related injuries on Spring Festival eve", 26.1.2009, http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-01/26/content_10720669.htm

Sanitation officials in Beijing said more than 10,000 sanitation workers picked up 2,268 tons of fireworks debris following the arrival of the Chinese Lunar New Year.

Source: "Fireworks leave 2,268 tons of trash", 27.1.2009, http://www.postchronicle.com/news/strange/article_212203396.shtml

Harbin, Chenggaozi Township of Xiangfang District, Heilongjiang Province/Northeast China. A blast went off at a fireworks stall, killing three people and injuring two others. The blast set fire to a nearby convenience store caused the disaster. The victims were a man (39), his daughter (13) and his niece (9). They were shopping in the Hacheng Road Convenience Store when the accident happened. - The fireworks dealer violated the regulations to store the firecrackers inside the stall, said the deputy mayor of Harbin. 27.1.2009

Source:

"Chine: trios morts dans l'explosion d'un stand de feux d'artifice", 27.1.2009, http://www.french.xinhuanet.com/french/2009-01/27/content_806203.htm 

"NE China city makes safety overhaul on fireworks stalls after explosion", 28.1.2009, http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-01/28/content_10727952.htm 

"Fireworks stall explosion kills 3 in Harbin", 28.1.2009, http://www.china.org.cn/china/news/2009-01/28/content_17192657.htm

Changle in Fujian province/South-east China. 15 people were killed and 22 others, including three of them critical, suffered from smoke inhalation and serious burns in a blaze. The accident happened when a group of 10 people who were celebrating a birthday set off fireworks at their table inside a bar. This set the ceiling on fire and the entire bar was soon engulfed in flames. 31.1.2009

Source:

"China firework bar blaze kills 15", 1.2.2009, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/7863365.stm 

"15 dead, 20 injured in bar fire in southern China", 1.2.2009, http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5giGB8AUPsbSgy9ePvWtfWD7QzVQAD962GADO1 

"China fireworks blaze kill 15", 1.2.2009, http://www.straitstimes.com/Breaking%2BNews/Asia/Story/STIStory_332923.html 

"Fireworks set deadly blaze in China", 1.2.2009, http://www.iht.com/articles/2009/02/01/asia/fujian.1-419953.php

Changle in der Provinz Fujijan/Südosten China. Etwa zehn junge Leute hatten in einer Bar mit angeschlossenem Restaurant gefeiert und dabei an ihrem Tisch Feuerwerkskörper gezündet. Dadurch fing die Deckenverkleidung Feuer. Das Restaurant ging in Flammen auf. Bei dem Brand kamen 15 Menschen ums Leben und 22 weitere wurden verletzt, drei von schwer. 31.1.2009

Quelle:

"15 Tote bei Brand in China", 1.2.2009, http://www.dw-world.de/dw/function/0,,12356_cid_3993508,00.html

"15 Tote bei Feuerwerksunfall in China", 1.2.2009, http://www.swissinfo.ch/ger/news/newsticker/international/15_Tote_bei_Feuerwerksunfall_in_China.html?siteSect=143&sid=10271911&cKey=1233457876000&ty=ti&positionT=1 

"15 Tote bei Geburtstagsfeuerwerk in China", 1.2.2009, http://www.pr-inside.com/de/tote-bei-geburtstagsfeuerwerk-in-r1036390.htm 

"15 Tote bei Feuerwerksbrand in China", 1.2.2009, http://tt.com/tt/home/story.csp?cid=3134725&sid=57&fid=21

Changle, ville de la province de Fujian/Sud-est de la Chine. 15 personnes sont mortes et 22 autres blessées, dont trois grièvement, dans l'incendie d'un bar, provoqué par des feux d'artifice d'intérieur. Un groupe qui célébrait un anniversaire dans un bar avait allumé des feux d'artifice d'intérieur sur la table où il avait pris place. 31.1.2009

Source: "Chine: 15 morts dans l'incendie d'un bar", 1.2.2009, http://www.romandie.com/infos/ats/display.asp?page=20090201031950801172194810300_brf006.xml

 

Pingqiao Village, Buyei-Miao Autonomous Prefecture of Qianxinan, Guizhou province/Southwest China. An explosion at an illegal fireworks factory killed six people and injured nine others. 7.2.2009

Source:

"Fireworks explosion kills 6 in China", 8.2.2009, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/World/Fireworks_explosion_kills_6_in_China/articleshow/4094829.cms 

"Fireworks plant blast kills six, injures nine in SW China", 8.2.2009, http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-02/08/content_10781877.htm

According to reports, fireworks set off by children from the Hui village of Niujinzhuang set fire to firewood in the neighbouring Han village, Gengzhuangzi, on the Lantern Festival, the end of the Lunar New Year holiday. The children argued over the event, but the row escalated into a massive brawl that drew thousands of villagers. The Hong Kong Centre for Democracy and Human Rights reported that 2,000 armed police came in to stop the fighting, and said hundreds were injured, four seriously. 10.2.2009

Source: "Children's fireworks row in China results in major clash", 18.2.2009, http://www.google.com/url?sa=X&q=http://www.irishtimes.com/newspaper/world/2009/0218/1224241331716.html&ct=ga&cd=Oa2TYUVMcx0&usg=AFQjCNFA8us5WseCD38OFiB4u-2nxCxV8g

Zhouwo Township, Wuqiang County, Hebei Province/North China. The homeowners, their daughter-in-law and a neighbor died in a fireworks explosion at a farmhouse. The volume of debris suggested that a huge amount of fireworks had been stored in the building. 2.4.2009

Source: "4 die in fireworks blast at farmhouse in N China's Hebei", 3.4.2009, http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-04/03/content_11125549.htm

Taojiang County of Hunan Province/Central China. A fireworks explosion killed two and injured five students from an elementary school hundreds of meters away. 14.4.2009

Source: "Illegal fireworks blast kills 1 child, injures 12", 12.11.2009, http://www.shanghaidaily.com/sp/article/2009/200911/20091113/article_419355.htm

Balizhuang Village of Shawa Township in Hejian City/North China's Hebei Province. Two people were killed, one injured and one is missing after a fireworks explosion at a farmhouse. - The blast, caused by illegal storage of fireworks according to an initial police investigation. 27.4.2009

Source: "Two killed, one missing in N China farmhouse fireworks blast", 28.4.2009, http://csr-asia.com/weekly_detail.php?id=11671

Yangzhuangzi Village of Qingyun Township, Qingyun County in East China's Shandong Province. At least 13 people were killed and two others were critically injured in an explosion at an unlicensed (illegal) fireworks factory operated out of a house. The 13 deceased are all workers of the plant, 10 women and three men, aged 27 to 66. The house was destroyed and neighboring homes were damaged. 2.5.2009

Source:

"13 die in Chinese fireworks plant blast", 2.5.2009, http://www.upi.com/Top_News/2009/05/02/13-die-in-Chinese-fireworks-plant-blast/UPI-62221241308004/ 

"Chinese fireworks explosion kills 13", 3.5.2009, http://www.montanasnewsstation.com/Global/story.asp?S=10293366 

"China: Blast at illegal fireworks factory kills 13", 3.5.2009, http://www.etaiwannews.com/etn/news_content.php?id=937865&lang=eng_news

"Victims identified in East China fireworks explosion", 3.5.2009, http://www.turkishweekly.net/news/75353/-victims-identified-in-east-china-fireworks-explosion.html

"Death toll rises to 13 in Shandong fireworks explosion" (with pictures), 5.5.2009, http://www.china.org.cn/china/news/2009-05/03/content_17712850.htm

Yangzhuangzi Village of Qingyun Township, Qingyun County, Provinz Shandong. Bei einer Explosion in einer illegalen Feuerwerkfabrik kamen 13 Menschen ums Leben, zwei weitere wurden verletzt. Mehrere Häuser in der Nachbarschaft wurden zerstört. 2.5.2009

Quelle:

"Explosion in chinesischer Feuerwerksfabrik – 13 Tote", 3.5.2009, http://tt.com/tt/home/story.csp?cid=7490790&sid=57&fid=21 oder

"13 Tote bei Explosion in chinesischer Feuerwerksfabrik", 3.5.2009, http://www.pr-inside.com/de/tote-bei-explosion-in-chinesischer-r1224714.htm 

"China: 13 Tote bei Explosion in Feuerwerksfabrik", 4.5.2009, http://www.china-observer.de/090504-123042/China_13_Tote_bei_Explosion_in_Feuerwerksfabrik.html

Tanbu Town, Wanzai County, Jiangxi Province/East China. Three workers were killed and another four injured in an explosion of the Fuhao Fireworks Plant. 7.5.2009

Source: "Fireworks plant blast kills three, injures four in E China", 8.5.2009, http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-05/08/content_11333116.htm

Qinzhou City, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region/South China. Explosion at around 7:50 a.m. in a fireworks plant. Four workers died. 8.5.2009

Source: "Six killed in China's fireworks plant blasts", 9.5.2009, http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-05/09/content_11339164.htm

Yishui County, Shandong Province/East China. Blast in an illegal fireworks workshop at around 5:30 p.m. It killed a couple on the spot and injured their son. 8.5.2009

Source: "Six killed in China's fireworks plant blasts", 9.5.2009, http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-05/09/content_11339164.htm

Shanghai County, Henan province. A motorcycle shop's owner had to fork over 16,000 yuan to the owner of a chicken farm, located just about 30 meters away from the shop. The noise of firecrackers that declared the opening of the shop sent about 800 chickens scattering and they eventually died from shock.

Source: "Noise from firecrackers scared chickens to death", 26.5.2009, http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2009-05/26/content_7942566.htm

Guzhuangying Village, Xushui County, Hebei Province/North China. Six died and four others were injured after firecrackers exploded in an illegal production plant. 27.6.2009

Source: "Six dead, four injured in north China firecrackers blast", 28.6.2009, http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-06/28/content_11613970.htm

Nankang City/East China's Jiangxi Province. About 4 a.m. on the expressway near Nankang City, a truck loaded with fireworks collided with another truck carrying butter and exploded. The collison triggered an explosion, killing four people. The explosion also slightly damaged the doors and windows of houses in a roadside village. 22.8.2009

Source:

"Death toll rises to four from China expressway collision explosion", 22.8.2009, http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-08/22/content_11927056.htm 

"Traffic collison triggers explosion, killing at least 3 in E China", 22.8.2009, http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90776/90882/6736370.html

"4 dead in firework truck crash on expressway", 22.8.2009, http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2009-08/22/content_8604507.htm

"6 dead, 1 injured in gas blast", 23.8.2009, http://www.shanghaidaily.com/article/?id=411514&type=National

Nanjing, Jiangsu province. A woman was walking down the street when a firecracker landed in her mouth. The firecracker, set off to celebrate a birthday party at a nearby restaurant, burned the woman's mouth, filling it with blood. 6.11.2009

Source:

"When a b'day firecracker landed in Chinese woman' mouth", 16.11.2009, http://sify.com/news/When-a-b-39-day-firecracker-landed-in-Chinese-woman-39-s-mouth-news-jlqoEbhihfi.html

"Birthday firecracker lands up in woman's mouth", 16.11.2009, http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2009-11/16/content_8975517.htm

Dafuzhuang Village, Runan County, Henan Province, Central China. Three people were killed and another one was injured after a firecrackers workshop blasted. 10.11.2009

Source:

"Three killed, one injured in C China firecrackers workshop explosion", 11.11.2009, http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-11/11/content_12435707.htm 

"Firecrackers blast", 12.11.2009, http://china.globaltimes.cn/society/2009-11/484506.html

Yanghui Village in Hezhou City of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. About 8 a.m., an explosion ripped through a private illegal fireworks workshop, killing a child (8) at the scene. 12 youngsters and a 61-year-old man suffered severe burns. Of them, a 9-year-old girl died later the same day in hospital. Seven of the injured children were seriously injured with more than 70 percent of their skin burned. The children, aged between 7 and 15, were paid to make firecrackers at the workshop after school. The house was partially collapsed. Local safety watchdogs said the workshop was unlicensed. – Two owners of the workshop are now in police custody on charges of employing child labor and producing dangerous goods without a license, local police said. 12.11.2009

Source:

"Illegal fireworks blast kills 1 child, injures 12", 12.11.2009, http://www.shanghaidaily.com/sp/article/2009/200911/20091113/article_419355.htm 

"13 victims in China illegal fireworks workshop blast identified as left-behind kids", 15.11.2009, http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-11/15/content_12458151.htm 

"Children critical after explosion", 16.11.2009, http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2009-11/16/content_8975133.htm

Gaozuo town of Jianhu county, Jiangsu province/East China. Three people were killed and four others were injured in a fireworks factory explosion. Four houses were toppled down. 28.11.2009

Source: "Fireworks factory blast kills three, injures four in China county", 29.11.2009, http://en.trend.az/regions/world/ocountries/1590199.html

Dongti village, Wuqiang county, Hebei Province/North China. Fireworks exploded in an unused factory house killing three people. – Initial investigation shows that the fireworks were illegally produced. 1.12.2009

Source: "Fireworks blast kills 3 in N China", 1.12.2009, http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-12/01/content_12571074.htm

Nordchina. Drei Menschen kamen bei einer Explosion in einer illegalen Feuerwerksfabrik ums Leben.

Quelle: "Drei Tote bei Explosion in chinesischer Feuerwerksfabrik", 1.12.2009, http://www.deaf-deaf.de/presse/20211-drei_tote_bei_explosion_in_chinesischer_feuerwerksfabrik.html

 

China's safety watchdog has intensified supervision over firework production after the country reported 169 deaths from firework-related accidents in the first 11 months.

Source: "Firework explosion kills 169 in China in first 11 months", 29.12.2009, http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2009-12/29/content_12723767.htm

2008

Sanbing Town, Chaohu City in Anhui Province. Three people died and two others sustained facial injuries in an explosion in a fireworks factory. About 10 workshops in the area were destroyed. 8.1.2008

Source: "Three die in fireworks blast in E China town", 9.1.2008, http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-01/09/content_7392822.htm

Northern Province of Hebei. Explosion at an illegal fireworks factory: six died and another person was injured. 20.1.2008

Source: "China fireworks blasts kill nine before New Year", 20.1.2008, http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSPEK302622

Village de Duanguzhuang, du district de Luancheng, dans la province du Hebei (nord). Un atelier illégal de fabrication de feux d'artifice a explosé, tuant six personnes et blessant une autre. 20.1.2008

Source: "Chine: neuf personnes tuées dans deux explosions survenues dans des atelier illégaux de fabrication de feux d'artifice", 21.1.2008, http://www.french.xinhuanet.com/french/2008-01/21/content_563556.htm

Beijing police destroyed 3,000 boxes of substandard firecrackers, valued at more than 2.2 million yuan (167,000 U.S. dollars), earlier this month. They were seized and detonated because of "potential danger to life and property".

Source: "Firecrackers kill one in Beijing on Lunar New Year's eve", 7.2.2008, http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-02/07/content_7580353.htm

Beijing lifted a 12-year ban on firecrackers in 2006. Since then, two deaths, 1,510 injuries and more than 2,400 fires caused by mishandled firecrackers had been reported.

Source: "Firecrackers kill one in Beijing on Lunar New Year's eve", 7.2.2008, http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-02/07/content_7580353.htm

Beijing's Pinggu District. A man, surnamed Zhang, was badly injured while igniting a kind of homemade firework ball on February 6 midnight, eve of the Lunar New Year, in his own courtyard. He died in the wee hours of February 7, 2008, after emergency medical treatment failed.

Source: "Firecrackers kill one in Beijing on Lunar New Year's eve", 7.2.2008, http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-02/07/content_7580353.htm

Beijing. The capital city's firework office said that 75 persons were injured while setting off fireworks over February 6, 2008, and that fireworks had triggered 90 fires since the night of February 6, 2008.

Source: "Firecrackers kill one in Beijing on Lunar New Year's eve", 7.2.2008, http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-02/07/content_7580353.htm

Peking. Ein Mann starb an einer Verletzung durch einen Feuerwerkskörper, den er selbst gezündet hatte. Mindestens 75 weitere Menschen wurden verletzt. 7.2008

Quelle: "China begrüsst das Jahr der Ratte", 7.2.2008, http://tagesschau.sf.tv/nachrichten/archiv/2008/02/07/vermischtes/china_begruesst_das_jahr_der_ratte

Foshan city, Sanshui district, southern province of Guangdong/South China. More than 15,000 cartons of fireworks stored in 20 warehouses of Yuetong Warehouse and Transportation Company on a 11-hectare area explosed. The blasts started around 3:30 a.m. at the No. 7 building of the warehouse, ignited  as a chain reaction fireworks in other buildings, also set neighboring woods on fire and has been extinguished after it burned for more than 30 hours. Heavy explosions lasted over hours and steel structural debris was found 1,000 meters away on a highway. Windows in homes about 5 kilometers away were shattered. 

The explosion could be felt kilometres away. Liang Gan, Guangdong Provincial Bureau of Seismology deputy director, said the fireworks explosion produced the energy equivalent to a 1.1 degree tremor on the Richter scale. To expel panic among residents, the seismis authority in Foshan sent text messages to explain the situation to the general public shortly after the explosions happened.

Two people suffered slight bruises from broken glasses. 

About 200 migrant workers and nearby residents were evacuated from their homes.

More than 650 police, fire fighters and soldiers were fighting to contain the fire. 14.2.2008

Source:

"S China’s Foshan City shaken by massive fireworks explosion", 14.2.2008, http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-02/14/content_7603763.htm

"Foshan fireworks blaze put out after 30 hours", 15.2.2008, http://www.china.org.cn/english/China/242819.htm

"Fireworks warehouses explode", 15.2.2008, http://www.cctv.com/english/20080215/101369.shtml 

"Villagers feel tremors in fireworks explosions", 15.2.2008, http://www.scmp.com/portal/site/SCMP/menuitem.2c913216495213d5df646910cba0a0a0/?vgnextoid=6d8143db25818110VgnVCM100000360a0a0aRCRD&vgnextfmt=teaser&ss=China&s=News

"Guangdong: exlosions massives dans les entrepôts de feux d'artifice à Foshan", 15.2.2008, http://www.french.xinhuanet.com/french/2008-02/15/content_577831.htm

"Fireworks warehouse explosions rock S China city", 15.2.2008, http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-02/15/content_7609649.htm with Photo Gallery under http://www.chinaview.cn/photos/index.htm 

Foshan, Südchina. 30 Stunden brauchte die Feuerwehr um den Brand in einem Lager für Feuerwerkskörper zu löschen. Insgesamt befanden sich über 15.000 Kartons mit Feuerwerkskörpern in diesem Lager.

Das Feuer entstand um 3.30 Uhr morgens in einem Lager und griff danach in einer Kettenreaktion auf die anderen Lager über.

Da die Explosion des Lagers, laut dem lokalen seismologischen Erdbebendienst der Stadt Foshan, die gleiche Leistung wie kleinere Erdbeben der Grössenordnung 1,1 hatte, verschickte dieser direkt nach dem Vorfall eine entsprechende Entwarnung. 15.2.2008

Quelle: "China: Brand in Lager für Feuerwerkskörper nach 30 Stunden gelöscht", 16.2.2008, http://www.blog.china-guide.de/index.php?entry=entry080216-072021

Dazhou in Sichuan province. A Chinese entrepreneur was among a group celebrating the end of Lunar New Year by setting off firecrackers in a square where they had been banned. As police took away a person who lit crackers, the entrepreneur was enraged and took some others along with him, smashed the door of a police patrolling car and let them into the police station, breaking the furniture and beating police officers. Twelve police officers were injured in the attack, including a female official who was beaten unconscious. The entrepreneur and seven others allegedly responsible for the offence were arrested for violently preventing police from executing public duties.

The Dazhou government asked the public not to set off firecrackers in the downtown area before the Spring Festival holiday.

Source: 

"Man sets off fireworks in police station", 24.2.2008, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/Man_sets_off_fireworks_in_police_station/articleshow/2810011.cms

"Chinese man attacks police station over firecracker ban", 25.2.2008, http://www.macaudailytimesnews.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=7341&Itemid=31 

"Chinese man attacks police station over firecracker ban", 25.2.2008, http://www.chinapost.com.tw/china/2008/02/25/144408/Chinese-man.htm

Fuzhou, East China's Fujian Province. Exploding fireworks injured four passengers slightly in a ticket office at Fuzhou railway station. The fireworks exploded when the man it belonged to was queuing to buy a ticket. - Fireworks are banned from being carried on trains in China! 1.3.2008

Source: "Fireworks blast injures 4 people in east China train station", 1.3.2008, http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-03/01/content_7696943.htm

Liujing Town, Beiliu City, South Chinas’s Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. Four workers were killed and one slightly injured after an explosion in a fireworks factory. More than ten workshop rooms were destroyed. 15.3.2008

Source:

"Four killed in south China fireworks factory blast", 15.3.2008, http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-03/15/content_7797895.htm 

"Four killed  in S China fireworks factory blast", 16.3.2008, http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2008-03/16/content_6539852.htm

"Four die in China fireworks plant blast", 16.3.2008, http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/Top_News/2008/03/16/four_die_in_china_fireworks_plant_blast/9318/

Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region in Northwest China. 22 people were killed on the spot and 10 others injured in a firecracker explosion. Two of the injured died later. The victims were said to be mainly police officers, staff of a local professional dynamite dismantling company and journalist covering the event. Five are still missing. Rescuers have been collecting body parts from the debris of the explosion and DNA tests are being carried out to identify them.

The blast occurred when local officials tried to destroy firecrackers in the Gobi desert 7km outside the city of Turpan. Seven of the eight trucks that were used to transport the fireworks were destroyed. A fire caused by the explosion was quickly extinguished though firefighters had to work from a distance because some fireworks had not exploded.

The fireworks had been stored in Hongqi Fireworks Plant for 10 years. Authorities decided to destroy the fireworks for fear they would spontaneously combust in the hot, dry weather. - China Central Television reports the likely cause was friction. 26.3.2008

Source:

"22 people killed in Xinjiang firecracker blast", 27.3.2008, http://www.china.org.cn/china/local/2008-03/27/content_13651301.htm 

"Officials blow up fireworks – 22 dead", 27.3.2008, http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,23439411-5005961,00.html 

"China 'fireworks' blast kills 22", 27.3.2008, http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/7315856.stm 

"Explosion kills 24 at fireworks disposal site" (article with pictures), 28.3.2008, http://www.china.org.cn/2008-03/28/content_13752979.htm

"DNA being used to identify victims of Chinese fireworks blast", 28.3.2008, http://www.kold.com/Global/story.asp?S=8082391

Provinz Xinjiang/China. Bei einer Explosion von Feuerwerkskörpern kamen 24 Menschen, darunter Polizisten, Angehörige einer Sprengstofffirma sowie Journalisten, um. 8 weiter wurden verletzt. Behörden wollten in einem Wüstengebiet ca. 8 Kilometer von der Stadt Turpan entfernt Feuerwerkskörper unbrauchbar machen. Sie hatten die Böller und Raketen mit Brandbeschleuniger übergossen und dann angezündet. Das bei der Explosion ausgebrochene Feuer konnte schnell gelöscht werden. 26.3.2008

Quelle:

"Zahlreiche Tote bei Zerstörung von Feuerwerk", 27.3.2008, http://www.bielertagblatt.ch/News/Ausland/107067

"22 Tote bei behördlicher Feuerwerksvernichtung", 27.3.2008, http://www.krone.at/index.php?http%3A//wcm.krone.at/krone/S25/object_id__96281/hxcms/

Wuzhuang village in Yongcheng City, Central China's Henan province. Three people were killed and 15 injured in an explosion in a house. Police found a number of fuses for firecrackers in the debris but they still did not know the cause of the blast. More than ten rooms collapsed in the explosion. 5.6.2008

Source: "Blast kills three, injures 15 in central China village", 5.6.2008, http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-06/05/content_8317536.htm

Hebei Province. A blast of confiscated firework materials in a garbage occurred when two construction workers ignited the trash near the building of Guangzong County Public Security Bureau office building. The blast cracked the glass of some windows but caused no casualties. 9.7.2008

Source: "North China police deny office bomb blast", 21.7.2008, http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2008-07/21/content_6864765.htm

Sijiazi Township of Aohan Banner in Chifeng City/North China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. 13 workers, including 11 women, were killed instantly and six others were injured in an explosion at the Xinxin Fireworks Plant on August 30, 2008. The blast destroyed about 50 workshops. The windows of many houses were shattered. More than a full day after the explosion, smoke could still be seen belching from the remains of the plant, coupled with sporadic blasts of fireworks buried in the debris. August 31, 2008, rescuers found two more bodies in the debris. - A preliminary investigation found the blast occurred when workers were weighing and mixing ingredients for fireworks. The blast led to new rounds of explosions of oxidizers and reducing agents stored inside the weighing workshop, which triggered completed fireworks or semi-finished products kept in other workshops to explode.

Source:

"At least 13 dead in China fireworks plant blast", 30.8.2008, http://www.thaindian.com/newsportal/uncategorized/at-least-13-dead-in-china-fireworks-plant-blast_10090626.html

"Fireworks factory explosion in China kills 13", 30.8.2008, http://ca.reuters.com/article/topNews/idCAPEK6535120080831 

"Fifteen dead in N China fireworks plant blast", 31.8.2008, http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-08/31/content_9744388.htm 

"China firework plant blast kills 15", 31.8.2008, http://ukpress.google.com/article/ALeqM5heLJFHHhYOaWAPMsiAzl4rdkSY6w 

"15 dead in Chinese fireworks blast", 31.8.2008, http://edition.cnn.com/2008/WORLD/asiapcf/08/31/china.fireworks.blast/

Sijiazi, Innere Mongolei/Nordchina. Bei einer Explosion in der Xinxin Feuerwerksfabrik kamen 15 Menschen ums Leben und sechs weitere wurden verletzt. 50 Werkstätten in der Fabrik wurden zerstört. Das Unglück ereignete sich, als Arbeiter Bestandteile für Feuerwerkskörper wogen und zusammenmischten. 30.8.2008

Quelle:

"15 Tote bei Explosion in chinesischer Feuerwerksfabrik", 31.8.2008, http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5gNAmJzDxTRXG0jiGcJ0JxlkON7sA

"15 Tote bei Explosion von Feuerwerkskörpern in China", 31.8.2008, http://www.pr-inside.com/de/tote-bei-explosion-von-feuerwerkskoerpern-r781093.htm

Shenzhen city, Guangdong province. September 20, 2008, a blaze and stampede at the Dance King nightclub killed 43 people and left 88 injured. According to a preliminary investigation, the fire was triggered by fireworks set off during a performance on the club's third floor that was attended by hundreds of people. Witnesses and state media reports say the blaze was caused by a fireworks stunt that went wrong. They say a performer was shooting off some fireworks towards the ceiling but a piece of cloth caught fire and everybody started running out. Many people were injured trying to flee through a narrow exit passage. - Police have detained 12 people in connection with the fire and subsequent stampede.

Three days later, the death toll has risen to 44 with the death in hospital of a woman (37) injured in the blaze. Another 51 people remained hospitalised, including four in critical condition. The number of people arrested over the weekend fire had risen to 15. Previously, 13 were reported arrested, including the club's owner and a local official.

Source:

"Fatal fire and stampede at club", 21.9.2008, http://news.sky.com/skynews/Home/World-News/China-Fatal-Nightclub-Fire-In-Shenzhen-Triggered-By-Fireworks-At-King-Of-The-Dancers-Show/Article/200809315103902 

"China night club fire kills 43: state media", 21.9.2008, http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5j1Z-70-WwaCCoDniniV9zQG_GwKg

"Fireworks stunt causes Shenzen nightclub stampede", 22.9.2008, http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/200809/s2370448.htm?tab=latest

"Toll in south China fire rises to 44: state media", 24.9.2008, http://afp.google.com/article/ALeqM5ij4euxAPVIe48oJAV1lXo4bKKhfA 

Shenzhen, Provinz Guangdong/Südchina. 43 Menschen kamen durch einen Brand im Nachtclub "Dance King" am 20. September 2008 ums Leben. Etwa 88 weitere Menschen wurden nach Angaben der Behörden verletzt, fünf davon lebensgefährlich. Das Feuer brach im dritten Stock der Diskothek aus, nachdem im Rahmen einer Show Feuerwerkskörper gezündet worden waren. Rund 900 Besucher waren zu der Zeit im Nachtclub. Es gab nur einen schmalen Gang, durch den die Besucher fliehen konnten; dabei kam es zu einer Massenpanik. - Drei Tage später starb eine der Schwerverletzten.

Quelle:

"43 Tote bei Brand in chinesischem Nachtclub", 21.9.2008, http://www.bluewin.ch/de/index.php/26,87245/43_Tote_bei_Brand_in_chinesischem_Nachtclub/ 

"43 Tote bei Brand in chinesischem Nachtclub", 21.9.2008, http://bernerzeitung.ch/panorama/vermischtes/43-Tote-bei-Brand-in-chinesischem-Nachtclub/story/18000910

"Süd-China: 43 Tote nach Brand in Nachtclub", 21.9.2008, http://www.zeit.de/news/artikel/2008/09/21/2619211.xml

Sep 23, 2008, China banned fireworks displays in public entertainment venues, just days after 43 young revellers were killed in a fire at the Dance King nightclub in Shenzhen, sparked by a fireworks display.

Source:

"China bans fireworks in clubs after deadly fire", 23.9.2008, http://uk.reuters.com/article/worldNews/idUKTRE48M5ZF20080923

"China bans fireworks in public entertainment venues", 23.9.2008, http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-09/23/content_10098871.htm

Shanghai. Pu Jiliang (26), a fireworks technician, died in an explosion outside of the Century Park in Pudong District – and he wasn't even lighting any fireworks. The man was loading fireworks for fireworks displays at Century Park on a truck near the gate of the park when the blast occurred. 5.10.2008 

Source:

"Fireworks blast kills one in Shanghai", 5.10.2008, http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-10/05/content_10151350.htm 

"Fireworks explosion kills man in Century Park", 6.10.2008, http://shanghaiist.com/2008/10/06/fireworks_explosion_kills_man_in_ce.php

"Fireworks technician killed in park blast", 6.10.2008, http://english.eastday.com/eastday/englishedition/node20676/userobject1ai3902081.html

Xiapai Village, Dianbai County, Maoming City, Guangdong Province/Southern China. A 4-year-old boy and three women were killed in an explosion at an illegal village firework plant. A 14-year-old girl and a man were seriously injured 16.11.2008

Tancheng County, East China's Shandong province. Two female workers (57, 59) were killed in an explosion at a firework plant that was so strong it knocked down the four-room facility. Another villager working in nearby cornfield was injured. 21.11.2008

Source: "Firework plant explodes killing two, injuring one in E. China", 22.11.2008, http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2008-11/22/content_10394558.htm

2007

Southern Province of Guizhou. A policeman who volunteered to clear firework explosives dangerously stored near a kitchen and told his colleagues to keep back was killed when they exploded. Luo Jinyu (26) was killed by flying bricks from the house which was destroyed in the explosion. Luo and his colleagues were cracking down on illegally made firecracker producers. 15.1.2007

Source: "Brave China policeman hailed after fireworks death", 19.1.2007, http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2007-01/19/content_788059.htm

Jiangkou Town, Putian City, Fujian Province. An explosion in an illegal firecracker workshop injured one worker and two are still missing. The blast destroyed two buildings and shattered the windows of buildings 300 meters away. 29.1.2007

Source: "Illegal firecracker plant blast injures one", 30.1.2007, http://www.shanghaidaily.com/article/?id=304621&type=National

Donggang in northeastern China's Liaoning Province. A fireworks warehouse exploded at around 10 p.m. The blast devoured the warehouse and broke windows at a residential building about 150 meters away. A local security official said the warehouse was not authorized for fireworks storage. 3.2.2007

Source: "Fireworks warehouse blast in Liaoning", 5.2.2007, http://www.china.org.cn/english/China/198849.htm

Zaoqiang County, northern Hebei Province. Six people were killed and two others injured in an explosion happening in a warehouse belonging to a  fireworks factory. Workers were transferring fireworks from one warehouse to another in the factory when the explosion occurred. - According to the State Administration of Work Safety, China has an average of 406 fireworks accidents every year with 445 deaths. 5.2.2007

Source: 

"Firework warehouse blast kills 5, injures 2", 6.2.2007, http://www.shanghaidaily.com/article/?id=305434&type=National

"Six confirmed dead in north China fireworks blast", 7.2.2007, http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007-02/07/content_5710437.htm

Jinan City, Shandong Province. At a firework market, a customer ignited a firecracker, and then the spark flew into a nearby box and detonated the fireworks inside it. More than 140 booths caught on fire. The blast also destroyed around 40 motorcycles. 15.2.2007 

Source: "Blast razes firework market in Jinan", (with picture!), 16.2.2007, http://www.shanghaidaily.com/sp/article/2007/200702/20070216/article_306636.htm

The 15 million residents of China's capital Beijing were forecast to spend about 114 million yuan (14.7 million dollars) to buy fireworks. 17.2.2007

Source: "Chinese celebrate new year with fireworks, feasts (Roundup)", 17.2.2007, http://news.monstersandcritics.com/asiapacific/news/article_1265061.php/Chinese_celebrate_new_year_with_fireworks_feasts__Roundup

Peking. Die 15 Millionen Einwohner sollen für 114 Millionen Yuan (18 Millionen Franken) Böller und Raketen in die Luft gejagt haben.

Quelle: "Hoffen auf Glück und Wohlstand", 19.2.2007, http://www.shn.ch/pages/artikel.cfm?id=179642

Beijing. One of the 270 people injured when setting off fireworks to celebrate the Eve of Chinese Lunar New Year died Sunday morning, February 18. The 25-year-old man was seriously wounded in the head and died later in hospital. Two of the injured men each lost an eye. About 480,000 security workers were mobilized Feb. 17 to watch out for firecracker accidents. Fireworks were the cause of more than 270 fires that broke out on Saturday and Sunday in the capital. 17./18.2.2007

Source:

"Beijing sees 125 firework-injured", 18.2.2007, http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2007-02/18/content_811673.htm

"Chinese New Year fireworks accidents in Beijing kill 1, injure scores", 18.2.2007, http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2007/02/19/asia/AS-GEN-China-New-Year-Injuries.php

"New year fireworks kill one in Beijing", 19.2.2007, http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/china/2007-02/19/content_811759.htm

"Chinese New Year fireworks kill 1, injure 270 in Beijing", 19.2.2007, http://news.monstersandcritics.com/asiapacific/news/article_1265414.php/Chinese_New_Year_fireworks_kill_1_injure_270_in_Beijing

Peking. Bei dem gigantischen Feuerwerk zum chinesischen Neujahrsfest sind 270 Menschen verletzt und ein Mann (25) getötet worden. Er hatte schwere Kopfverletzungen erlitten. 270 Brände seien am 17./18.2. in Peking durch Feuerwerk ausgebrochen.

Quelle:

"Toter und 270 Verletzte durch Rekordfeuerwerk", 18.2.2007, http://www.20min.ch/news/kreuz_und_quer/story/28282153 

Basler Zeitung

Beijing. City officials reported 663 injuries, up from 654 injuries in 2006. Improper use of fireworks was blamed in 420 cases (63% / 13.51% higer than 2006), from February 17 to February 24, 2007.

Source: "660 injured by fireworks", 26.2.2007, http://www.shanghaidaily.com/sp/article/2007/200702/20070226/article_307029.htm

87,500 sanitation workers and 1,729 sweepers collected 2,600 tons of fireworks debris in the Chinese capital during the seven-day Chinese Lunar New Year holiday.

Source: "Beijing collects 2,600 tons of fireworks debris in lunar new year period", 25.2.2007, http://english.people.com.cn/200702/25/eng20070225_352356.html

Zhabei District. A man (38) lighting contraband fireworks suffered eye and hand injuries on Sunday night.

Source: "Fireworks injury", 6.3.2007, http://www.shanghaidaily.com/sp/article/2007/200703/20070306/article_308039.htm

Maoming City, south China's Guangdong Province. Blasts in a privately-run fireworks workshop left four people died and six injured. After policemen and security personnel rushed to the fireworks workshop, a much more destructive blast broke out, killing the security guardian Ke Yayun and a worker on spot. The policeman Che Kejian (23) and the worker Fan Jinhua (35) died later in hospital. 30.3.2007

Source: "Fireworks workshop blast kills 4", 31.3.2007, http://www.china.org.cn/english/China/205511.htm 

Maoming, province du Guangdong sud. Des explosions survenues dans une usine de feux d'artifice privée ont tués le policier Che Kejian et Ke Yayun, un gardien de la sécurité ainsi qu'un ouvrier nommé Fan Jinhua et un autre ouvrier non identifié et ont fait six blessés. 30.3.2007

Veuillez lire plus dans l'article "Quatre morts et six blessés suite à des explosions dans une usine de feux d'artifice dans le sud de la Chine", 2.4.2007, http://french.peopledaily.com.cn/VieSociale/5549836.html

Shanghe Village, Chongren County of Fuzhou City, Jiangxi Province. Wu Lang and Huang Kangsun, two village officials were killed and two others injured when a van filled with firecrackers exploded at a farewell party. 15.7.2007

Source: "Two officials die as van of firecrackers explodes", 16.7.2007, http://www.shanghaidaily.com/sp/article/2007/200707/20070716/article_323533.htm

Aohan banner of Chifeng city, North China's Inner Mongolia. Four people were killed and six others were injured in a firework factory blast. Two of the injured are in serious condition with 70 and 80 per cent of their bodies burnt. Surviving workers said they saw one of the injured light a fire to repair equipment in a part of the complex where naked flames were forbidden. 28.8.2007

Source:

"Four dead, six injured in North China firework factory blast", 28.8.2007, http://www.firefightingnews.com/article-WO.cfm?articleID=36889

"China firework factory blast kills four", 28.8.2007, http://www.javno.com/en/world/clanak.php?id=75464

Hundreds of fireworks accidents cause around 450 deaths in China each year.

"China firework factory blast kills four", 28.8.2007, http://www.javno.com/en/world/clanak.php?id=75464

Xiaodi village, Central China's Henan Province. At 4:10 a.m., in a blast in the storehouse of a fireworks factory the keeper was killed on the spot and several villagers were injured. Many nearby houses were damaged. 16.9.2007

Source:

"Firework factory blast kills 1, injures 7", 16.9.2007, http://www.china.org.cn/english/China/224640.htm 

"L'explosion d'une usine de feux d'artifice dans le centre de la Chine fait un mort et plusieurs blessés", 17.9.2007, http://french.peopledaily.com.cn/VieSociale/6264158.html

Fuzhou City in Linchuan District, Jiangxi Province/East China. The fire at the "Bense Jingying" nightclub that killed 12 people and injured six others was caused by fireworks set off in celebration of China's Mid-Autumn Festival. The employees set off fireworks in the hall to create a festive atmosphere only for the decorations made of cotton cloth hanging from ceiling to catch fire. 25.9.2007

Source :

"Nightclub fire in east China blamed on festival fireworks", 27.9.2007, http://english.people.com.cn/90001/90776/6272869.html

"12 Dead in Chinese Night Club Fire", 27.9.2007, http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jxT1TMCkI9hT9veOm8CNHvB_yRYQ

Hong'an Town, Xiushan County in southwestern Chongquing Municipality. Sixteen people were killed and another 15 injured – four of them, including two children, severely - in an explosion at an unlicensed fireworks plant. Three houses were destroyed and at least one person was reported missing. 21.10.2007

Source:

"16 killed in explosion at Chinese factory", 22.10.2007, http://www.rte.ie/news/2007/1022/china1.html 

"Blast at Chinese fireworks plant kills 16", 22.10.2007, http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/Top_News/2007/10/22/blast_at_chinese_fireworks_plant_kills_16/9985/ 

"Workers killed in China fireworks explosion", 23.10.2007, http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/news/stories/s2067863.htm 

Sijiazizhen area of Chifeng City, Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region/North China. An explosion in Jinhuatai Firecrackers Factory has killed at least two people with nearly 10 others missing. 21.10.2007 

Source: "2 killed in N. China fireworks plant blast", 23.10.2007, http://www.china.org.cn/english/China/229429.htm

Liuyang City/Central China's Hunan Province. Six people were confirmed dead, two others were slightly injured and two went missing when a blast went off at Dahu Firecrackers Co. 10.11.2007

Source: "Six dead, two missing in central China firecracker blast", 11.11.2007, http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007-11/11/content_7049601.htm

Chine. Le contrôleur chinois de la sécurité au travail a appelé les autorités locales à superviser les usines de feux d'artifice dans une cirulaire faisant référence à un accident le 10 novembre (10 personnes morts dans l'explosion dans une usine de pétards de la province du Hunan).

Source: "La Chine renforcera le contrôle sur la sécurité des usines de feux d’artifice", 21.11.2007, http://french.china.org.cn/china/txt/2007-11/21/content_9268086.htm

Xiashetang village in Hepu County, southern Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. An explosion in an illegal fireworks workshop claimed three lives. Seven people seriously injured were still in danger, another six injured were in stable condition. The workshop is no more than 200 meters away from a primary school with more than 300 students. 24.11.2007

Source: "Injured from south China fireworks workshop blast still in danger", 25.11.2007, http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007-11/25/content_7140786.htm

Five children were killed and one seriously wounded by a blast when playing in an abandoned firecracker factory.

Yuncheng City, northern province of Shanxi. Children were playing inside an abandoned firecracker factory, when a small amount of expired explosives stored in the factory went off, killing five children instantly and seriously injuring an other one.  26.11.2007

Source:

"Abandoned firecracker factory explosion kills five children in China", 26.11.2007, http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007-11/26/content_7147080.htm

"China firecracker blast kills five children", 26.11.2007, http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/PEK301664.htm

Yuncheng City/Nördliche Provinz Shanxi. Kinder spielten in einer leerstehenden Fabrik für Feuerwerkskörper, als abgelaufene Knallkörper in die Luft gingen. Fünf Kinder wurden bei der Explosion getötet und ein weiteres wurde schwer verletzt. 26.11.2007

Quelle: "Kinder bei Explosion von Feuerwerks-Fabrik in China getötet", 26.11.2007, http://www.baz.ch

Hunan Province, Central China. Illegal fireworks workshop: An explosion has ripped through a house where villagers were illegally making fireworks, killing 13 people and injuring six others. 27.11.2007

Source:

"Blast in China firecracker workshop kills 13", 27.11.2007, http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSPEK277255 

"Blast at China fireworks shop kills 13", 27.11.2007, http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5jO_lKWVQfRIL0fFbBKtc1Ugld6DwD8T63IIG2 

"Blast at illegal fireworks shop in central China leaves 13 dead, 6 injured", 27.11.2007, http://www.thewestonmercury.co.uk/content/twm/news/story.aspx?brand=Westonmercury&category=news&tBrand=westonmercury&tCategory=znews&itemid=WeED20%20Nov%202007%2011%3A00%3A16%3A510

"13 dead in fireworks workshop blast", 28.11.2007, http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2007/11/28/2103103.htm?section=world

Yangjiazhuang Township in the Yangquan City, Shanxi Province/North China. An explosion at the Xingtong Fireworks and Firecrackers Co. Ltd. factory killed 11 people and injured eight. 28.11.2007

Source:

"Fireworks workshop blast kills 11, injures eight in N China", 29.11.2007, http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007-11/29/content_7166080.htm 

"Second China fireworks factory blast kills 11", 28.11.2007, http://www.reuters.com/article/latestCrisis/idUSPEK338044

Yangjiazhuang Township in the Yangquan City, Mittelchina. Bei der Explosion in einer Feuerwerksfabrik starben 11 Menschen, 8 weitere wurden verletzt. 28.11.2007

Quelle: "Elf Tote bei Explosion in Feuerwerksfabrik in China", 29.11.2007, http://www.baz.ch

Chengdu, capital of southwest China's Sichuan Province. An explosion in an illegal fireworks workshop in Xindu District in the city suburbs has killed six people and injured four others. 30.11.2007

Source:

"Fireworks workshop blast kills six, injures four in SW China", 30.11.2007, http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007-11/30/content_7177792.htm 

"Six killed in blast at fireworks unit in China", 1.12.2007, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/World/Six_killed_in_blast_at_fireworks_unit_in_China/articleshow/2587195.cms

Jinchang Gouliang Township of Aohan Banner in Chifeng City/North China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region. An explosion at a workshop of Raoyang Fireworks Co. Ltd. killed one person, injured eight and left one missing. 3.12.2007

Source: "Fireworks plant blast kills one, injures eight in north China", 4.12.2007, http://www.china.org.cn/english/China/234330.htm

State Administration of Work Safety (SAWS) data as of early 2006 showed that there were approximately 7,000 firework production enterprises and 140,000 firecracker sellers in China, with some 1.5 million employees. The annual output value for firecrackers stood at some 12 billion yuan and export value at around 340 million U.S. dollars.

From 1985 to 2005, firecracker workshops nationwide reported 8,532 accidents with 9,349 deaths, or 460 deaths on average annually.

China accounts for 75 percent or so of world's total annual firecracker production.

Source: "China to revoke licenses for firecracker workshops with serious accidents", 3.12.2007, http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007-12/03/content_7193086.htm

From Oct. 21, 2007 to Dec. 4, 2007, China has reported 86 deaths in 12 serious firecracker related accidents, the State Administration of Work Safety said Dec. 3.

In China, a "serious" firecracker related accident refers to incidents where there were three or more deaths.

Source: "Fireworks plant blast kills one, injures eight in north China", 4.12.2007, http://www.china.org.cn/english/China/234330.htm

Liuyang City, Hunan Province/Central China. Six people were confirmed dead, two others were slightly injured and two went missing when a blast went off at Dahu Firecrackers Co. 8.12.2007

Source: "6 dead, 2 missing in firecracker blast2, 11.12.2007, http://news.rednet.cn/c/2007/11/12/1368996.htm

Taiyuan, capital of north China's Shanxi Province. Three people were killed and seven others injured in a pipeline explosion. The explosion blew off road surface in the Yingze South Street. The casualties were guests to a wedding banquet at a nearby hotel and migrant workers who were paving the road at the time of explosion. Witnesses accused the wedding undertakers of lighting firecrackers, which ignited the blast of gas pipeline underground.15.12.2007

Source: "Pipeline explosion kills three in north China city", 16.12.2007, http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2007-12/16/content_7259345.htm

2006

Linfen City of Shanxi province/North China. Four women were killed and six others, including two fire-fighters participating in the rescue, injured when explosives went off at an illegal fireworks workshop in a residential building. The blast brought down the building and damaged at least two adjacent houses. 25.1.2006

Source: "Blast kills four, injures six in north China", 28.1.2006, http://www.hindu.com/thehindu/holnus/003200601281159.htm or http://www.thesunchronicle.com/articles/2006/01/28/city/city4.txt

Beijing/China: Chinese Lunar New Year

The old tradition of fireworks at Chinese New Year celebrations was back with a bang, as authorities lifted a 12-year ban on exploding fireworks during the Lunar New Year holiday. Beijing lifted the ban after a survey 2005 found that 70% of residents felt fireworks made the holiday period more festive.

About 4,000 fire-fighters and 3,000 police and community officers were placed on standby.

New rules allow Beijing residents to explode fireworks all day on Jan. 28 and 29 (2006), New Year's Eve and New Year's Day and from 7 a.m. to midnight every day from Jan. 30 to Feb. 12.

An estimated 3000 fireworks stands will be set up in the greater Beijing Area, 1000 of them in the city center.

Source:

"China puts 4,000 fire-fighters on standby", 29.1.2006, http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1390999.cms

"Fireworks legal again in China", 29.1.2006, http://www.thestate.com/mld/thestate/news/nation/13739421.htm

"China brings back New Year's fireworks tradition", 28.1.2006, http://wcbstv.com/topstories/local_story_028160549.html

"Chinese New Year set to start  with a bang as 400,000 cases of fireworks hit the streets of Beijing", 27.1.2006, http://www.interfax.cn/showfeature.asp?aid=9655&slug=CHINESE-NEW-YEAR

Peking/China: Chinesisches Neujahrsfest

In diesem Jahr haben mehr als 200 chinesische Städte das Feuerwerksverbot erstmals wieder aufgehoben.

1994 war in Peking wegen vieler Brände, teils schwerer Verletzungen bei Unfällen sowie wegen der Luftverschmutzung und der Lärmbelästigung ein Feuerwerksverbot erlassen worden. 2006 war dieses Verbot auf das Chinesische Neujahrsfest vom 29. Januar hin wieder aufgehoben worden, nachdem 2005 in einer Umfrage 70% der Einwohner von Peking für Feuerwerk während der Festtage stimmten. Nun wurde in mehr als 2100 Geschäften in der 15 Millionen Einwohner zählenden Stadt drei Mal mehr Feuerwerk als 1993 angeboten. Jeder Bürger darf bis zu 30 Kilogramm Feuerwerk mitnehmen.

Rund 4000 Feuerwehrleute sowie 3000 Sicherheitskräfte werden während der Neujahrsfeiern im Einsatz sein.

Quelle:

"Böller-Verbot in Peking aufgehoben", 28.1.2006, http://www.netzeitung.de/vermischtes/379756.html 

"'Jahr des Hundes' mit grösstem Feuerwerk aller Zeiten begrüsst", 29.1.2006, http://www.netzeitung.de/vermischtes/379756.html 

"Jahr des Hundes mit Feuerwerk begrüsst", 28.1.2006, http://www.nachrichten.ch/detail/232560.htm“ 

"China startet erstmals seit zwölf Jahren wieder mit Böllern ins neue Jahr. Am Sonntag beginnt nach dem Mondkalender das Jahr des Hundes", 29.1.2006, http://www.dieneueepoche.com/articles/2006/01/29/8348.html 

"Wieder Böller- und Raketenverkauf in China", 28.1.2006, http://www.ltonline.ch/pages/index.cfm?dom=12&rub=100004702&nrub=0&sda=1&Artikel_ID=101157345 

"Jahr des Hundes in China begrüsst. Grösstes Feuerwerk aller Zeiten", 30.1.2006, http://www.faz.net/s/RubCD175863466D41BB9A6A93D460B81174/Doc~EB5C27542F08847A1974D8B749B0942F6~ATpl~Ecommon~Sspezial.html 

Beijing. According to statistics of the State Administration of Work Safety (SAWS), 26 people were injured by firecrackers and had to stay in hospital for treatment. 28.1.2006

Source: 

"Beijing reports good safety situation upon removing firecracker ban", 30.1.2006, http://en.chinabroadcast.cn/2238/2006-1-30/148@296252.htm or "Beijing reports good safety situation", 29.12.2006, http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-01/29/content_4117382.htm

Peking. Es wurden 26 Verletzte gezählt, die in Spitälern lagen. Die meisten hatten Augenverletzungen erlitten. 28.1.2006

Quelle:

"16 Tote bei Explosion von Feuerwerkslager", 30.1.2006, http://www.sz-online.de/nachrichten/artikel.asp?id=1065435

und Basler Zeitung

Southwestern Municipality of Chongqing. According to statistics, from 4 p.m. Saturday, Jan. 28 to 6 a.m. Sunday, Jan. 29, there were 191 fire cases caused by firecrackers in the city, which also removed the ban on firecrackers this year.

Source: 

"Beijing reports good safety situation upon removing firecracker ban", 30.1.2006, http://en.chinabroadcast.cn/2238/2006-1-30/148@296252.htm  or 

"Beijing reports good safety situation", 29.12.2006, http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-01/29/content_4117382.htm

In der Südwestchinesischen Metropole Chongqing, die ebenfalls das Feuerwerksverbot aufgehoben hatte, wurden 191 Brände, die durch Knaller und Raketen ausgelöst worden waren, gemeldet. 28./29.1.2006

Quelle:

"16 Tote bei Explosion von Feuerwerkslager", 30.1.2006, http://www.sz-online.de/nachrichten/artikel.asp?id=1065435 

und Basler Zeitung

Beijing. The government reported 112 people were treated at hospital emergency rooms over the weekend for fireworks-related injuries. 17 people suffered serious eye injuries, the State Administration of Work Safety said in a statement. Another 26 were admitted to hospitals with various types of other wounds. 28./29.1.2006

Source: "China's New Year fireworks frenzy kills 36", 30.1.2006, http://www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?articleid=262688&area=/breaking_news/breaking_news__international_news/

and http://abcasiapacific.com/news/stories/asiapacific_stories_1558337.htm

Linqi town (near Linzhou City in Henan Province/Central China). On the first day of Chinese Lunar  New Year, 16 people were killed on the spot and several others injured when a storehouse full of fireworks was ignited by fireworks and exploded, causing too collapse of a neighboring temple nearby. Some people were buried beneath the debris. 29.1.2006

Source:

"Fireworks blast kills 16 in China", 29.1.2006, http://dnaindia.com/report.asp?NewsID=1010144

"Firework blast marrs Chinese new year", 29.1.2006, http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyID=2006-01-29T154347Z_01_PEK251428_RTRUKOC_0_UK-CHINA-NEWYEAR.xml&archived=False

"16 killed in firecracker storehouse explosion in Central China", 29.1.2006, http://en.chinabroadcast.cn/2238/2006-1-29/148@296242.htm

The situation 2 days later: The accident injured up to 48 other people, with 8 people seriously injured. 16 were initially reported to have been killed, but the death toll rose up to 36 after more bodies were discovered during clear-up operations and some victims died of their injuries.

Source:

"China's New Year fireworks frenzy kills 36", 30.1.2006, http://www.mg.co.za/articlePage.aspx?articleid=262688&area=/breaking_news/breaking_news__international_news/:

"Death toll from C. China's firework storehouse blast rises to 36", 30.1.2006, http://en.chinabroadcast.cn/2238/2006-1-30/135@296362.htm

"Firecracker storehouse blast kills 36 in Henan", 30.1.2006, http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-01/30/content_4121209.htm 

What was the cause? Investigators have concluded that the fireworks explosion was caused by three children who were playing with firecrackers at the gate of the storehouse. One of the kids threw a burning firecracker into the storehouse through a ventilation hole, directly detonating the firecrackers and fireworks stored inside.  

Source: 

"China fireworks deaths blamed on child", 1.2.2006, http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/national/1104AP_China_Fireworks_Deaths.html  

"Fireworks blast kills 36", 2.2.2006, http://www.shanghaidaily.com/art/2006/02/02/239333/Fireworks_blast_kills_36__injures_48.htm

"4 detained following fireworks explosion", 3.2.2006, http://www.shanghaidaily.com/art/2006/02/03/239847/4_detained_following_fireworks_explosion.htm

Linqi town (nahe der Stadt Linzhou in der Provinz Henan). Bei der Explosion in einem Lagerhaus für Feuerwerkskörper direkt neben einem stark besuchten traditionellen Tempelfest während des chinesischen Neujahrsfestes kamen 16 Menschen ums Leben. Die genaue Zahl der Verletzten ist noch nicht bekannt. Laut den Behörden entzündete sich das Lager durch Böller und Raketen, die in der Nähe abgebrannt wurden. 29.1.2006

Zwei Tage später (31.1.2006): Die Zahl der Todesopfer stieg auf 36 an, da bei den Aufräumarbeiten unter den Trümmern weitere Opfer gefunden wurden und Verletzte in Spitälern gestorben waren. Von den Behörden wurde als Zahl der Verletzten nun 48 genannt, davon 8 schwer. Es wird vermutet, dass ein Besucher des Tempelfestes, bei dem traditionell Knallkörper entzündet werden, versehentlich die Explosion im Feuerwerkslager auslöste. Der Tempel sei durch mehrere 'Explosionswellen' erschüttert worden und dann eingestürzt.

Quelle:

"China: 16 Tote nach Explosion von Feuerwerkskörpern", 30.1.2006, http://news.orf.at/index.html?url=http%3A//news.orf.at/ticker/207446.html 

"16 Tote bei Explosion von Feuerwerkslager", 30.1.2006, http://www.sz-online.de/nachrichten/artikel.asp?id=1065435 

"36 Todesopfer nach Feuerwerksexplosion in China", 31.1.2006, http://www.handelsblatt.com/pshb?fn=tt&sfn=go&id=1181751 

 

à A former company executive received a suspended death sentence and nine other company and public officials will be jailed for three to five years for involvement in a fireworks explosion that killed 36 people. The Jan. 29 explosion in Linqi Town, Linzhou City in Henan Province, central China, was blamed on fireworks that were stored illegally and were ignited when a child threw a lighted firecracker into the cache. Most of those killed were at a temple celebrating the traditional Lunar New Year. Sixteen people died in the blast and 20 died later. Investigations showed that improper storage of the fireworks was largely to blame for the explosion.

Three children aged under 14 threw a burning firecracker through a ventilation intake into one of the company's firework storehouses. The blast set off a series of explosions in neighboring storehouses, which led to the heavy casualties. 12.12.2006

Source:

"Chinese court jails 10 in fatal fireworks blast", 12.12.2006, http://www.iht.com/articles/ap/2006/12/12/asia/AS_GEN_China_Fireworks_Deaths.php

"10 managers, officials jailed for fatal fireworks blast in central China", 12.12.2006, http://english.people.com.cn/200612/12/eng20061212_331552.html 

"Fireworks factory manager sentenced to death for blast killing 36", 13.12.2006, http://english.people.com.cn/200612/13/eng20061213_331715.html 

Chinese will set off 1 billion yuan's ($124 million) worth of fireworks and firecrackers over this year's (2006) spring festival period, according to state media, as more than 200 cities lift restrictions on pyrotechnics.

Source: "Firework blast marrs Chinese new year", 29.1.2006, http://today.reuters.co.uk/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=topNews&storyID=2006-01-29T154347Z_01_PEK251428_RTRUKOC_0_UK-CHINA-NEWYEAR.xml&archived=False

Nach Schätzungen in den amtlichen Medien geben die Chinesen dieses Jahr rund eine Milliarde Yuan (102 Millionen Euro) für Feuerwerk aus, um über die zwei Neujahrswochen zu feiern.

Allein in Peking waren diesmal für 100 Millionen Yuan (10 Millionen Euro) Kracher und Böller verkauft worden.

Quelle: "Jahr des Hundes in China begrüsst. Grösstes Feuerwerk aller Zeiten", 30.1.2006, http://www.faz.net/s/RubCD175863466D41BB9A6A93D460B81174/Doc~EB5C27542F08847A1974D8B749B0942F6~ATpl~Ecommon~Sspezial.html

Shanghai, Yangpu District. A senior man had his right eye removed after a firecracker exploded very close to his right eye. He also received serious burns to his neck. 2.2.2006

Source: http://www.shanghaidaily.com/art/2006/02/03/239788/Man_blinded.htm

Macao. A statement issued by the Macao Red Cross said 160 injured, caused by the fireworks during the celebrations of the Chinese lunar New Year holiday, were recorded at the first-aid stations at the two fireworks zones in town. Most of the wounded aged between 20s and 30s, most of them sustained minor eye, hand, leg and face injuries.

Source:

"Fireworks frenzy leads to 160 injuries in Macao", 3.2.2006, http://en.chinabroadcast.cn/2238/2006-2-3/65@296932.htm and http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-02/03/content_4132279.htm

The number of fire accidents caused by fireworks hit 6,057 during this year's Spring Festival, jumping by 320% from last year's Spring Festival, as this year nearly 200 cities lifted their ban on fireworks.

Source: 

"More accidents after firework ban lifted", 6.2.2006, http://www.shanghaidaily.com/art/2006/02/06/240622/More_accidents_after_firework_ban_lifted.htm

"Chinese police on high alert ahead of Spring Festival holiday", 15.2.2007, http://english.people.com.cn/200702/15/eng20070215_350143.html

Beijing. People in the capital city lit tons of fireworks during the Spring Festival. The local environment and sanitary authorities said they had gathered more than 500 tons of orts from the fireworks just on Lunar New Year's Day, as well as another 264 tons from the Lantern Festival.     

Source: "Olympics mascots for remaining fireworks", 14.2.2006, http://www.shanghaidaily.com/art/2006/02/14/242061/Olympics_mascots_for_remaining_fireworks.htm

Authorized dealers said they had sold 55 million yuan (US$6.83 million) of fireworks during the holiday, which accounted for nearly half of their total stock.

Source: "Olympics mascots for remaining fireworks", 14.2.2006, http://www.shanghaidaily.com/art/2006/02/14/242061/Olympics_mascots_for_remaining_fireworks.htm

County of Pianguan in north China's Shanxi province. Eight people were killed and one other was missing in the Wannianhong firecracker factory explosion. 1.4.2006

Source:

"28 killed, 10 missing in two separate blasts in China", 2.4.2006, http://www.zeenews.com/znnew/articles.asp?aid=285789&sid=WOR

"Blast at China explosives plant kills 20", 2.4.2006, http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/2006-04-02-china-blast_x.htm?POE=NEWISVA

Pianguan, Provinz Shanxi/Nordchina. Acht Menschen starben bei einer Explosion in einer Feuerwerksfabrik. Ein Arbeiter wird vermisst. 1.4.2006

Quelle:

"28 Tote bei Explosionen in China", 3.4.2006, http://www.ltonline.ch/pages/index.cfm?dom=12&rub=100004702&nrub=0&sda=1&Artikel_ID=101210541

"28 Tote bei Explosionen in zwei chinesischen Fabriken", 2.4.2006, http://de.today.reuters.com/news/newsArticle.aspx?type=worldNews&storyID=2006-04-02T120810Z_01_MAI243681_RTRDEOC_0_CHINA-CHEMIEWERK-TOTE-ZF.xml

"28 Tote bei zwei Explosionen mit Sprengstoff und Feuerwerk in China", 3.4.2006, http://www.swissinfo.org/ger/swissinfo.html?siteSect=882&sid=6599112 

Jinxian County, East China's Jiangxi Province. A blast in a fireworks plant killed three workers and injured four others. Workers were testing a new machine to mix explosives. The blast caused a workshop to collapse. 7.4.2006

Source:

"Fireworks kill 3", 8.4.2006, http://www.shanghaidaily.com/art/2006/04/08/260418/Fireworks_kill_3.htm

"Fireworks plant blast kills 3, injures 4 in E. China Province", 7.4.2006, http://en.chinabroadcast.cn/811/2006/04/07/421@74526.htm

Xia'ninggang harbor in the northern part of Changsha (capital of Hunan) in central-south China's Hunan Province. Seven people were slightly injured and windows of hundreds of meters away are rattled as several shipping containers full of fireworks exploded at the port. 17.5.2006

Source: "Seven injured in fireworks container blast in S. China", 17.5.2006, http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-05/17/content_4563481.htm

Anping County, Hebei Province. An explosion rocked a home fireworks factory killing two people, injuring four people, destroying six homes in the building and damaging the other two. Nearby buildings were damaged. 22.5.2006

Source: "Fireworks blast", 24.5.2006, http://www.shanghaidaily.com/art/2006/05/24/278957/Fireworks_blast.htm

South China's Guangdong Province has shut down all of its 130 fireworks businesses amid safety concerns and to satisfy new government regulations:

-         12 closed themselves down of their own accord

-         23 moved to other provinces

-         12 turned to other trades

-         the rest are planning to shift for making other products

Currently, China has about 7,000 fireworks production businesses and 140,000 sales businesses with 1.5 million employed.

Statistics released by the State Administration for Work Safety show that from 1985 to November 2005, there were 8,532 fireworks accidents, which left 9,349 people dead.

Source: "Southern China province shuts down all fireworks business", 3.6.2006, http://english.people.com.cn/200606/03/eng20060603_270739.html

Shanghai. A shop owner set off a fireworks to celebrate its debut, but ended up with a fire in the Baima Building on Tanggu Road. Sparks from the very first firecracker blew into the balcony of a clothing storeroom on the 16^th floor and started the fire. The flames spread to the 10 floors above. Glass and firework fragments fell down onto wires, nearby residents' roofs and the road. 5.6.2006

Source:

"Good-luck firecrackers set office on fire", 6.6.2006, http://www.shanghaidaily.com/art/2006/06/06/282261/Good_luck_firecrackers_set_office_on_fire.htm

"Debut celebration ends with fire", 5.6.2006, http://www.shanghaidaily.com/art/2006/06/05/282189/Debut_celebration_ends_with_fire.htm

Mazhuang Village in Daxin Township of Fuyang City, Anhui Province. A man (72) who used his home as an illegal fireworks factory was killed along with five others when the workshop exploded. Thirteen others were injured. 11.6.2006

Source:

"Six killed after fireworks blast", 12.6.2006, http://news.scotsman.com/international.cfm?id=865822006

"Blast death toll rises to six in east China province", 12.6.2006, http://english.eastday.com/eastday/englishedition/nation/userobject1ai2099271.html

Provinz Anhui. Bei einer Explosion in einer illegal betriebenen Werkstatt für Feuerwerkskörper wurden sechs Menschen (darunter der Besitzer) getötet. 13 Menschen wurden verletzt. Quelle: "Sechs Tote bei Explosion in Werkstatt für Feuerwerk in China", 12.6.2006, http://www.baz.ch

Village of Dongzhai in Shanxi province, Northern China. A fire ignited explosives stored in a villager's home, setting off a blast that killed at least 47 people and injured 20. 

The fire began around 6:30 a.m. and many fellow villagers then rushed to help extinguish the fire. Suddenly, the bungalow ablaze exploded, killing the 47 villagers. The villager' home was blasted into rubble. Windows of adjacent houses were broken. More than 200 firefighters, police and rescue workers were clearing debris. 7.7.2006

Source: "Fireworks kill 47 in northern China", 8.7.2006, http://www.edmontonsun.com/News/World/2006/07/08/1674386-sun.html

Hunan province, in the County of Yizhang, southern China. A blast at an illegal firecracker workshop killed six people on the spot (including a 14-year-old girl) with a seventh person dying later  in hospital and injured three others. The blast collapsed the major part of the 50-square-meter workshop. 10.7.2006

Source: 

"Explosion at illegal firecracker factory in southern China kills 7, injures 3", 10.7.2006, http://www.canada.com/topics/news/world/story.html?id=602aea4b-d0df-48b6-ae7b-458fe190054b&k=498

"Blast kills 7", 11.7.2006, http://www.shanghaidaily.com/art/2006/07/11/285743/Blast_kills_7.htm

"Blast in central China kills seven people", 10.7.2006, http://www.hindustantimes.com/news/181_1740417,00050004.htm

Panshi, Shizui Township,  northeastern China's Jilin Province. An explosion ripped through a firework factory, killing seven workers and injuring two others. Windows within 2 kilometers of the factory were shattered. 19.8.2006

Source: 

"Fireworks plant blast kills at least 7", 21.8.2006, http://www.shanghaidaily.com/art/2006/08/21/289642/Fireworks_plant_blast_kills_at_least_7.htm

"Death toll from NE China fireworks plant blast rises to 7", 21.8.2006, http://english.eastday.com/eastday/englishedition/nation/userobject1ai2267089.html

Weifang city in east China's Shandong Province. At least two people were killed and 12 others injured when an illegal dump of explosioves and fireworks went off. 28.8.2006

Source: "Two killed, 12 injured in China explosions", 29.8.2006, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1935920.cms

Mudanjiang City, Heilongjiang Province. A bag containing gas and fireworks a woman brought onto a bus she was riding on caught fire, leading to a blaze that killed five people and seriously injured twenty others. 21.9.2006

Source:

"Fatal bus bag", 23.9.2006, http://www.shanghaidaily.com/art/2006/09/23/292772/Fatal_bus_bag.htm

"Woman's bag causes fatal bus fire", 22.9.2006, http://www.shanghaidaily.com/art/2006/09/22/292745/Woman__039_s_bag_causes_fatal_bus_fire.htm

"Petrol and fireworks spark China bus fire; five dead, 20 hurt", 23.9.2006, http://www.chinapost.com.tw/asiapacific/detail.asp?ID=91139&GRP=C

Jiangchuan County, Sourthwest China's Yunnan Province. One worker has been confirmed dead, 32 people were injured and six others are still missing after a storehouse exploded around 6.20pm at Xiaotuanshan Fireworks Factory, when 202 people were working. The factory was immediately evacuated after the explosion. 2.11.2006

Source:

"32 injured, six still missing in SW China fireworks factory blast", 4.11.2006, http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2006-11/04/content_5290704.htm

"One killed, 32 injured in fireworks factory blast in China", 4.11.2006, http://www.zeenews.com/znnew/articles.asp?aid=333639&sid=WOR

City of Qingzhou, east China's Shandong Province. Nine persons were injured in an explosion at the Erfu fireworks workshop. Two of them died the next morning in hospital. Dozens of private houses were damaged in the explosion. 9.11.2006

Source: "2 killed, 7 injured in firework workshop blast in Shandong", 10.11.2006, http://www.china.org.cn/english/China/188557.htm

2005

Feidong, Anhui Province. A couple thrilled at the prospect of their two sons returning home to marry, triggered a family tragedy when they decided to make some homemade fireworks to celebrate. Something went wrong as they set about making them and the ensuing explosion left the husband (56) dead and his wife (53) badly injured.

Source: "Family festivity marred by fireworks horror", 20.1.2005 , http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2005-01/20/content_410525.htm

Ostchinesische Provinz Anhui. Ein Mann wurde getötet, als er zu Hause selbst Knallkörper bauen wollte. Seine Frau wurde schwer verletzt. 11.1.2005

Quelle: "Mindestens 25 Tote bei Explosion in Feuerwerksfabrik", 12.1.2005, http://www.netzeitung.de/ausland/320650.html oder unter 

http://www.mz-web.de/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=ksta/page&atype=ksArtikel&aid=1105539013811&openMenu=1013083806405&calledPageId=1013083806405&listid=1018881578737

Jing'an village, Xiangfen County, North China's Shanxi Province. 25 people were killed and 9 injured in a fireworks factory explosion on January 11, 2005. The fireworks factory was operated inside a cave. A chain of blasts was sparked from one workshop to another, setting light to finished fireworks and inflammable raw materials kept in store in other caves. The main entrance of the factory was totally destroyed. The blast is being blamed on work safety violations although the factory does have a complete set of legitimate documents all required by different local authorities to permit production.  

The families of the 25 victims can expect 150,000 yuan (US$18,000) in compensation. Most of the dead were local female villagers, with a few from neighbouring counties, who had very limited knowledge about inflammable products and were vulnerable to accidents. Another 200,000 yuan (US$24,000) has been allocated to the nine injured people. Founded in 1989, the fireworks factory employed 210 workers and produced 15,000 boxes of fireworks and 1,500 boxes of gun-salutes a year.

Source:

"Fireworks blast kills 25 in Xiangfen", 13.1.2005, http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2005-01/13/content_408355.htm

"Fireworks blast kills 24 in Shanxi", 12.1.2005, http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2005-01/12/content_407997.htm

"Families of blast victims compensated", 17.1.2005, http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2005-01/17/content_409444.htm

Provinz Shanxi/Nordchina. Mindestens 25 Menschen (die meisten davon junge Frauen) wurden bei einer Explosion in der Feuerwerksfabrik Xiangliu getötet und 9 verletzt. 11.1.2005

Quelle: "Mindestens 25 Tote bei Explosion in Feuerwerksfabrik", 12.1.2005, http://www.netzeitung.de/ausland/320650.html

Binyang county, South China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. Explosion at a fireworks factory. The blast is reportedly caused by the flame ignited by the cleaning workers. Two people died on the spot, another two died in hospital, 16 others were injured. 24.1.2005

Source: "Fireworks factory blast kills 4 in South China", 25.1.2005, http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2005-01/25/content_411836.htm

Hengshui City, north China's Hebei Province. An explosion at an illegal fireworks factory has killed two people and leaving another seriously injured. 27.1.2005

Source: "Fireworks kill 9 in China", 29.1.2005, http://us.rediff.com/news/2005/jan/29chin.htm

Xingtai City, north China's Hebei Province. An explosion at an illegal fireworks factory killed the wife and son of an illegal firework producer Li Xinhua. 27.1.2005.

Source: "Fireworks kill 9 in China", 29.1.2005, http://us.rediff.com/news/2005/jan/29chin.htm

Dingzhou City, north China's Hebei Province. An explosion at an illegal fireworks factory killed five people. 28.1.2005

Source: "Fireworks kill 9 in China", 29.1.2005, http://us.rediff.com/news/2005/jan/29chin.htm

Nearly half of all fireworks made in China fail to meet basic quality standards, according to a survey released recently.

The spot check was conducted on 120 fireworks enterprises from seven provinces. 

Source: "Half of all fireworks do not meet standards", 7.2.2005, http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2005-02/07/content_415662.htm

Peking. Bei den Feiern zum chinesischen Neujahrsfest am 9. Februar sind 290 Menschen durch Feuerwerkskörper verletzt worden: die meisten hatten Verletzungen an den Händen oder an den Augen. 9.2.2005 

Quelle: "Neujahr in China: 300 Verletzte wegen Feuerwerken", 10.2.2005, http://www.20min.ch/tools/suchen/story/23528554

Shangrao City, Jiangxi Province/East China. Up to 30 people were killed when a double-decker bus was destroyed after a nearby truck loaded with explosives and fireworks blew up around 4am on an expressway near Shangrao City on March 17, 2005

The truck was travelling from Liuyang City of Central Hunan Province, a major fireworks producer.

Police said that the exact death toll is hard to tell now, as victims were exploded into pieces. The toll was estimated on the bus's 30-person seating capacity. No survivors were found on the vehicle which was completely destroyed. The explosion also caused serious injuries including broken bones and head injuries to five local residents and two drivers who were near the scene. The blast was so powerful it was heard several kilometres away. About 60 homes near the highway were destroyed.

Sources:

"Blast kills at least 20", 18.3.2005, http://english.eastday.com/eastday/englishedition/node20676/userobject1ai945080.html

"Powerful explosion kills up to 30 on bus in China", 17.3.2005, http://www.channelnewsasia.com/stories/afp_asiapacific/view/137849/1/.html

"Chinese fireworks truck explodes; 20 die", 18.3.2005, http://www.indystar.com/articles/9/230126-8779-010.html

"20 Die as Truck Carrying Firewors Explodes", 18.3.2005, http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-briefs18.6mar18,1,986710.story?coll=la-headlines-world&ctrack=1&cset=true

"Truck carrying fireworks caused bus blast", 18.3.2005, http://washingtontimes.com/upi-breaking/20050318-042353-3828r.htm

Baojing village, Hangfu, Anhui. Five workers were killed and many others injured by an explosion at a small fireworks factory. Three workshops were demolished by the blast. 28.4.2005

Source: Hazardous Cargo Bulletin, July 2005, http://www.hazardouscargo.com/Storage/IsgResourceFile/Aug-2005/5/hcb_fc_spinejuly.pdf

Chizhou in der ostchinesische Provinz Anhui. Als Polizisten gegen Randalierer vorgehen wollten, wurden sie mit Steinen und Feuerwerkskörpern beworfen. 

Quelle: 26.6.2005, http://derstandard.at/?url=/?id=2095079

Western District of Hong Kong. A seaman (47) has died after unused fireworks exploded on board his barge near Sai Wan 22.8. at about 9:30 a.m. The incident occurred when workers were taking the unused fireworks to the mainland after Saturday night's (20.8.) regular Symphony of Light pyrotechnic display. Firemen found a charred body inside the barge. The ship's captain was discharged from hospital but his two crew members were listed as critical, with burns covering 65 and 80 percent off their bodies. Officers from the police Bomb Disposal Unit removed 20 boxes of unused fireworks from the barge. 

The seamen on the barge saw smoke emitting from boxes of the fireworks and attempted to put out the fire while steering the barge towards Sai Wan to seek emergency help. The explosion occurred before the barge could reach the shore. 22.8.2005

Source:

"HK freight boat fire kills one, injures three", 22.8.2005, http://english.eastday.com/eastday/englishedition/nation/userobject1ai1370363.html

"Fatal barge blaze sparked by fireworks", 23.8.2005, http://www.thestandard.com.hk/stdn/std/Metro/GH23Ak11.html

Yiyang City, Anhua county of central-south China's Hunan Province. A series of explosions have ripped through fireworks workshops, killing 13 people and injuring four others. One of the four injured remained in serious condition. An initial blast occurred late afternoon, spreading to six other workshops at the Jiangnan Fireworks Plant. The blast has devastated a space of approximately 500 square meters and all the workshops turned into debris. 15.9.2005

Source:

"Firework plant blast kills 10, injuring 4 in Hunan", 15.9.2005, http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-09/15/content_3496322.htm

"Firework plant blast kills 10 in Hunan", 15.9.2005, http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2005-09/15/content_478226.htm

"Fireworks factory explosion claims 13 lives", 16.9.2005, http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=126&art_id=qw1126857601201B251

"13 dead after fireworks explode through Chinese workshops", 16.9.2005, http://breakingnews.iol.ie/news/story.asp?j=156059888&p=y56x6x594

"Home blast kills one, injures two in Hebei", 16.9.2005, http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2005-09/16/content_478543.htm 

"Death toll rises to 13 in Hunan fireworks blast", 16.9.2005, http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-09/16/content_3498137.htm

Provinz Hunan/Zentralchina. Bei der Explosion in einer Feuerwerksfabrik kamen 13 Menschen ums Leben und vier weitere wurden verletzt. Die Explosion zerstörte einen Teil der Feuerwerksfabrik. 15.9.2005

Quelle: "Mexiko: Grossbrand zerstört Markt für Feuerwerkskörper", 16.9.2005, http://www.suedwest-aktiv.de/landundwelt/topthemen/1795179/artikel.php?SWAID=52f4f4a20185684b10aa931eaf37eb25

Xiaoqiao Town of Jinzhou City, Hebei province. A household workshop exploded when a man was making firecrackers illegally. One woman was killed on the spot, two other women were injured. The blast also damaged several  neighboring houses. 15.9.2005 

Source: "Home blast kills one, injures two in Hebei", 16.9.2005, http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2005-09/16/content_478543.htm 

Jinzhou City, Provinz Hebei/Nordchina. Bei einer Explosion wurde eine Frau getötet und zwei andere Menschen verletzt, während sie illegal Feuerwerk zusammensetzten. 15.9.2005

Quelle: "Mexiko: Grossbrand zerstört Markt für Feuerwerkskörper", 16.9.2005,  

http://www.suedwest-aktiv.de/landundwelt/topthemen/1795179/artikel.php?SWAID=52f4f4a20185684b10aa931eaf37eb25

Guangedian Village in the Lirangdian Township of the Gu'an County in Langfang City. Fireworks material was blamed for causing an explosion in the house of Liu Haijun. Six people were killed, including Liu, Liu's wife and daughter. Six others were injured. The explosion also destroyed or damaged dozens of houses. Neighbours of Liu had stored a certain amount of fireworks material in Liu's house to prepare for manufacturing fireworks later. 3.10.2005 

References:

"Police blame fireworks material for village explosion in N. China ", 8.10.2005, http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-10/08/content_3595262.htm

"Explosion kills 6, injures 6 other in village", 5.10.2005, http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-10/05/content_3585643.htm

Yizhang County, Jiangxi Province. Six people were killed and four others injured by an explosion at an illegal fireworks factory. The impact knocked off the roof of the small workshop in a remote village in the province's south end. 

Source: 25.10.2005, http://www.shanghaidaily.com/art/2005/10/26/207814/Blast_kills_6_at_fireworks_factory.htm

Cuiweiyuan Village of Jieguan Township, Wuqiang County, Hebei Province. Four people were killed and three others were injured in an explosion at an illegal fireworks factory. The owner and his elder son were killed on the spot, his first daughter-in-law and the mother of the first daughter-in-law died later in hospital. 27.11.2005

Source:

"Fireworks explosion leaves 4 dead in Hebei", 28.11.2005, http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2005-11/28/content_3846184.htm

"Blast claims 4", 29.11.2005, http://www.shanghaidaily.com/art/2005/11/29/219674/Blast_claims_4.htm

2004

Authorities in Fengxiang County, a main fireworks production center in northwest China's Shaanxi province, have ordered the closure of 2,180 fireworks factories, mostly home workshops, after a series of fatal explosions.

Source: "Chinese fireworks factories shut for safety checks", 3.1.2004, http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/en/doc/2004-01/03/content_295476.htm

The number of accidents caused by residents setting off fireworks and firecrackers accounted for 41.2%, large increase compared to the same period of last year, statistics revealed. 

Source: "Luoyang hotel fire kills 7, injures 17", 30.1.2004, http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/en/doc/2004-01/30/content_301810.htm

Erhuping Village, Sangzhi County, Zhangjiajie City, central China's Hunan Province. 10 people were killed after a cargo truck loaded with fireworks exploded 7:20 p.m. in a fireworks plant. 13.4.2004

Source: 16.4.2004, http://www.asianlabour.org/archives/001446.html

Jiaocunmiao Village, Changleji Township of Caoxian County, Heze City of east China's Shandong Province. 14 dead and five injured in the firworks explosion at a farmhouse (an uncertificated, illegal fireworks workshop). 15 houses were ruined during the accident, including the five in the courtyard where the workshop located. 63 houses around were damaged to some extent. 22.4.2004  

Source: "14 dead, 5 injured in fireworks explosion in Shandong", 23.4.2004, http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2004-04/23/content_325841.htm

Yaoshang Village of Tianhu Town, songxian County, Henan Province/Central China. 3 people were killed and another 3 people were injured in a unlicensed fireworks factory blast. 13.5.2004

Source: 14.5.2004, http://www.asianlabour.org/archives/001596.html

Pingxiang, eastern China's Jiangxi province. 16 women workers have been killed and at least 3 other workers were hurt in an explosion at a fireworks factory. The blast left a crater measuring 80 square metres and scattered gunpowder over a wide area. Many of the workers were poverty-stricken villagers who endure great health risks. 10.6.2004  

Source:

"China firecracker blast kills 16", 10.6.2004, http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/3792995.stm

"Fireworks explosion kills 16 workers", 19.6.2004, http://www.wsws.org/articles/2004/jun2004/lab-j19.shtml

Baihe Village, Hekou Township of Nanxian County of Yiyang City, Province Hunan/Central China. Eight people died in an explosion at Hedong Fireworks Factory. A dozen other people were injured in the blast which also destroyed six rooms. Rescue workers found two more dead bodies the next morning. 16.9.2004

Source: "Fireworks factory explosion kills 10" (article with pictures!), 17.9.2004, http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2004-09/17/content_375517.htm

The Chinese government is planning to strengthen safety supervision over its scattered fireworks manufacturers to reduce the rising cases of accidental fireworks explosions.

From 1985 to 2003, a total of 8,448 explosions caused by fireworks took place across China, an average of 445 case per year.

Sun Huashan, deputy director of the State Administration for the Supervision of Production Safety, said China's fireworks industry is still in the process of regulation, which resulted in a weak safety supervision system in the whole industry. Most cases were caused by illegal manufacture or transportation or shoddy manufacture. The governement will encourage small-sized fireworks manufacturers to consolidate into larger ones, and will develop the provinces of Hunan and Jiangxi and Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region into three major manufacturing bases of China's fireworks industry. At the start of the year there were a total of 7,064 fireworks companies in 26 Chinese provinces, 74% of which are located in Hunan, Jiangxi and Guangxi. The sales of fireworks in these places accounted for 83% of the national total.

"China to regulate fireworks industry", 1.10.2004, http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2004-10/01/content_379364.htm

Baishishui Township, Pubei County in the Guangxi region on China's southern coast. An explosion at a fireworks factory killed 24 people. 

The blast may have caused by a blast inside a workshop. Three major shops at the factory were destroyed by the blast while the roofs of four surrounding rooms were also blown off. The township factory employed nearly 100 people, had an output value of 5 million yuan (US$604'600) last year. 4.10.2004

Source: 

"Explosion at China Factory kills 24: Report", 5.10.2004, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/873777.cms

China's fireworks industry suffers hundreds of deaths a year in explosions and fires. The industry employs tens of thousands of people, many of them in the poorest parts of the country. They do most of the work by hand, often at home or in small village workshops. 

"Explosion at China Factory kills 24: Report", 5.10.2004, http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/873777.cms

Linli county, Hunan province, Central China. An explosion in the finished products warehouse of Malu Firecracker Factory setting off in a chain reaction three other explosions in the nearby warehouse for semi-finished products. 7 people were killed on the spot, six others died in a local hospital, while 3 escaped with injuries. 

The entire 3,000-square-meter plant was demolished. Windows were blown out of houses more than a kilometer away. The explosions also started a small forest fire. 27.10.2004

Source: 

"Blasts kill 13 at Chinese fireworks factory", 28.10.2004, http://www.iol.co.za/index.php?set_id=1&click_id=3&art_id=qw109894320169B251

"Hunan Fireworks Factory Blast Kills 13", 29.10.2004, http://www.china.org.cn/english/China/110742.htm

The State Administration of Work Safety reports that in the first nine months of 2004, 192 people died in 92 separate fireworks accidents.

Source: "Hunan Fireworks Factory Blast Kills 13", 29.10.2004, http://www.china.org.cn/english/China/110742.htm

Changsha, Hunan Province/Southcentral China. A railway carriage with firecrackers exploded at the suburbs of Changsha and injured 18 workers (two of them in critical condition) who were repairing the rails at the site. 9.12.2004

Source:

"Firework explosion injures 18" (with pictures), 10.12.2004, http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2004-12/10/content_399131.htm

"Fireworks blast in Changsha, 20 injured" (with pictures), 10.12.2004, http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/english/doc/2004-12/10/content_398912.htm

"Railway explosion Injures 18", 10.12.2004, http://www.china.org.cn/english/2004/Dec/114601.htm

Changsha, Provinz von Hunan. Ein Güterwagen voller Feuerwerkskörper explodierte. 18 Gleisarbeiter, die in der Nähe waren, wurden verletzt, zwei davon schwer. 9.12.2004

Quelle: 10.12.2004, http://shortnews.stern.de/start.cfm?overview=1&id=550240&newsid=3&rubrik1=Alles&rubrik2=Alles&rubrik3=Alles&sort=3&start=1&suche=feuerwerksk%F6rper&nps=15&zeitraum=999&sparte=4&rubrikid1=2812

2003

Bei township, Guangxi province. Three workers died in a fireworks factory blast. 13.1.2003

Source: http://www.amrc.org.hk/4620.htm

Beisijiazi village, Liaoning province. Six died when a firework factory exploded. 15.1.2003

Source: http://www.amrc.org.hk/4620.htm

Yinzu village, Hubei province. Five workers were killed in a firework factory explosion. 16.1.2003

Source: http://www.amrc.org.hk/4620.htm

Linli county, Hunan province. 11 workers died and 9 others were injured when an illegal fireworks factory exploded. 18.1.2003

Source: http://www.amrc.org.hk/4620.htm

Taiping, Provinz Guangdong/Südchina. Am ersten Tag des Neujahrsfestes nach dem Mondkalender hatten sich Feuerwerkskörper in einem überfüllten Geschäft aus unbekannter Ursache entzündet und in einer Kettenreaktion weitere Explosionen in mehreren benachbarten, ebenfalls überfüllten Geschäften ausgelöst. 7 Menschen kamen ums Leben, 21 wurden verletzt. 1.2.2003

China ist der grösste Produzent von Feuerwerk, das in den meisten grossen Städten des Landes aus Sicherheitsgründen aber verboten ist. 

Quelle: "40 Tote bei Restaurantbrand und Feuerwerksexplosion in China", 3.2.2003, http://archiv.mopo.de/archiv/2003/20030203/nachrichten/deutschland_welt/panorama/4053315.html

Guangzhou. About 2,000 of chickens died of fear or were crushed to death by other scared birds on the New Year's eve in southern China. The chickens were panic-struck when six teenagers started letting off fireworks at the New Year celebration. As a result of the loud fireworks the owner of the chickens suffered the loss of 30,000 yans (about $3,700). 4.2.2003

Source: "Two thousand chickens fell victims of New Year fireworks", 4.2.2003 http://english.pravda.ru/fun/2003/02/04/42977.html

Statistics show that China is now the largest fireworks producer and exporter in the world. Boasting more than 600,000 employees, thousands of firecracker factories in the country turn out 45 million cases a year, with annual output worth 10 billion yuan (US$1.2 billion).

The labor-intensive industry garners 400 million US dollars in export earnings every year, or

about 90% of the world's total trade in fireworks.

"Will the Chinese continue to enjoy firecrackers?", 11.2.2003, http://service.china.org.cn/link/wcm/Show_Text?info_id=55499&p_qry=fireworks

Liling, Provinz Hunan. Bei einer Explosion in einer Feuerwerksfabrik starben neun Menschen und zwei weitere wurden verletzt. Ein Sprecher erklärte später, die Detonation habe Fensterscheiben in der Umgebung zerspringen lassen. 26.6.2003

Quelle: 27.6.2003, http://de.news.yahoo.com/030627/281/3ihpu.html

Xinji City, Wangkou Township, north China's Hebei Province. 29 people were killed and more than 140 others injured in an explosion at Guoxi Fireworks on July 28, 2003.

The blast levelled the main production plant, collapsed half of a two-storey office building 100m away and burned cars and motorcycles nearby. State television said 91 people were still in hospital and another 50 had been treated for minor injuries and sent home.

August 2, 2003, three more bodies were found when police were cleaning up rubble and debris after 18 tons of leftover gunpowder in the devastated fireworks plant were ignited on August 1,2003.

Source: 

30.7.2003, http://straitstimes.asia1.com.sg/asia/story/0,4386,202244,00.html

"Fireworks plant explosion death toll hits 32 in North China", 3.8.2003, http://www.china.org.cn/english/MATERIAL/71470.htm

Xinji City, Wangkou, nördliche Provinz Hebei. Bei einer gewaltigen Explosion in einer chinesischen Feuerwerksfabrik wurden 29 Menschen getötet und mehr als 140 verletzt. Die Detonation, die noch in fünf Kilometer Entfernung deutlich zu vernehmen war, erschütterte die Umgebung der Guoxi-Fabrik so stark, dass die Anrainer zunächst ein Erdbeben befürchteten. Aus dem Firmengelände stiegen dichte schwarze Rauchwolken auf. Offenbar hatte sich Schiesspulver durch starke Hitze selbst entzündet. Das Firmengebäude wurde vollständig zerstört. - Explosionen in Fabriken für Feuerwerkskörper kommen in China häufig vor, da die Sicherheitsvorschriften immer wieder missachtet werden. 28.7.2003

Quelle: 

http://www.baz.ch

Tele-Bärn News / 10 vor 10, SF1

Fujian province, southeastern China. An explosion tore apart the Minhou Jingxi Fireworks Factory, killing two factory workers and injuring six others (this was China's second fatal fireworks accident in four days). It also left 13 people missing. Houses up to 400 meters (yards) were damaged. 31.7.2003

Source: "2nd fireworks accident in 4 days kills 2", 31.7.2003, http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/en/doc/2003-07/31/content_250705.htm

Tonglu, East China's Zhejiang Province. 10 people were injured in the explosion in a fireworks warehouse August 1, 2003.

Source: "Fireworks warehouse explosion in Zhejiang", 3.8.2003, http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/en/doc/2003-08/03/content_251385.htm

Huizhou City's Huiyang District, Southern China's Guangdong province. An explosion on August 19, 2003, at a fireworks show has killed two people and injured one. One of the devices detonated too close to the ground in the ignition area, about one kilometre from the square, injuring three staff. One of the injured died in hospital on August 19, 2003; the second succumbed to his injuries on August 20, 2003.

Source: "Fireworks explosion kills two in southern China", 21.8.2003, http://www.abc.net.au/news/stories/2003/08/21/928731.htm

Fujian Province/east China. Two people were executed for two deadly fireworks explosions that killed a total of 27 people and injured 67 others last year while 13 others got jail terms from three years to life imprisonment. Lin Qimu and Xia Yuechang were put to death by Fuzhou City Intermediate People's Court on conviction of illegally buying, selling, transporting and storing explosives after they lost their appeal according to China's Criminal Law. They were detected to be responsible for the fireworks factory explosion killing 21 people and injuring 31 others at Shadi Village, Shangjie Township of Minhou County on Aug. 26, 2003. Six others involved in the case, were sentenced to jail terms from life imprisonment to three years on different charges.  

Source:

"Explosion Of Chinese Fireworks Cache Kills 20", 29.8.2003: http://www.wsvn.com/news/articles/world/C25847/

"Two people executed in Fujian for deadly fireworks blasts", 4.3.2004, http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-03/04/content_1345722.htm

"China: On the enforcement of occupational health and safety regulations", 5.3.2004, http://www.asianlabour.org/archives/001110.php

Shadi Village, Kreis Minhou, Provinz Fujian/Südosten China. Bei einer Explosion in einer illegalen Feuerwerksfabrik kamen 21 Menschen ums Leben, 31 weitere wurden verletzt. Laut dem chinesischen Staatsfernsehen wurden die Feuerwerkskörper in einer alten Holzhütte hergestellt und gelagert. Häuser im Umfeld von 60 Metern wurden durch die Explosion beschädigt. 26.8.2003

Quelle: "Feuerwerkskörper. Chinesisches Roulett", 27.8.2003, http://www.faz.net/s/Rub21DD40806F8345FAA42A456821D3EDFF/Doc~EBE0037608E5240D280ED6721BE316C07~ATpl~Ecommon~Scontent.html

Binyang county in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. Four people have been killed and two hurt in a blast at an illegal private fireworks factory. 5.9.2003

Source: http://www.abc.net.au/news/newsitems/s939395.htm

Beihai City of south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. 7 death, 46 injured and another 2 missing in an explosion at the Gongguan Export Fireworks Plant (largest fireworks firm in Beihai/1'300 people employed/annual output exceeding 100 million yuan = 12 million US dollars). 9.9.2003

(Beginning September 10, 2003, all fireworks plants in the city are required to stop production for a safety check.)

Source: "Death toll in fireworks explosion rises to 7", 11.9.2003, http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/en/doc/2003-09/11/content_263172.htm 

Dapingling village in central Hunan province's Jiehe county. A boy (14) was killed and 11 people were injured, with nine of the injured under the age of 15, in a blast at a fireworks factory, after which Lei Cuiyun, factory manager, committed suicide on October 21. The explosion occurred when the children were making firecrackers. 19.10.2003

Source: "Teenager killed in fireworks factory blast, manager commits suicide", 21.10.2003, http://quickstart.clari.net/qs_se/webnews/wed/ba/Qchina-blast.RLJu_DOL.html

Xinxiu Village, Gongguan Township, Hepu County, Beihai City of south China's Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. 12 people were killed and more seriously injured in an explosion taking place in a fireworks factory. The explosion happened at the ninth workshop of the Gongguan Export Fireworks Factory. 15.11.2003

Source: "Fireworks factory explosion kills 16", 16.11.2003, http://www.china.org.cn/english/China/80221.htm

Gongguan Township. Four people were killed and five others seriously injured in an explosion at an underground firecracker plant. 15.11.2003

Source: "Fireworks factory explosion kills 16", 16.11.2003, http://www.china.org.cn/english/China/80221.htm

Fengxian District. More than 5,000 boxes of illegal and substandard fireworks went up in smoke. Some 200 firefighters helped destroy the fireworks, which are believed to have had a value of 1 million yuan (US$120,281). Source: "Illegal fireworks out with a Bang", 23.11.2001, http://www.china.org.cn/english/SO-e/22579.htm

The Chinese Government has announced it will clean up its accident-plagued fireworks industry. It plans to shut down dangerous factories and those employing underage workers. Officials admit there has been a resurgence in the illegal production of fireworks with deadly results. In the first nine months of the year 209 people were killed in fireworks explosions – an increase of 24% from last year.

"China fireworks industry shake-up", 27.11.2003, http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/3242152.stm

Lutang village, Huaninan city, Anhui province, east China. A blast at a fireworks factory killed two people and injured 10 others, when workers were busy making fireworks at an illegal factory. The blast tumbled at least a dozen houses and shattered all the window glasses within an area with a radius of 100 square meters. 8.12.2003

Quelle: 9.12.2003, http://content.sina.com/news/49/47/5494754_1_gb.html?skin=englishCenter

Douzhuangzi Village, Dagang District/north China port city. 6 people were killed and one is still missing after illegally stored fireworks exploded 9.12.2003.

Quelle: 9.12.2003, http://content.sina.com/news/49/60/5496024_1_gb.html?skin=englishCenter  

Shuangmiaozi Town of Tieling City in Liaoning Province/Northeast China. The powerful explosion at a fireworks factory killed 36 people, injured 44 people, including 18 seriously wounded, and totally destroyed the plant on December 30, 2003. "Houses about 100 metres from the factory were damaged by fires caused by the explosion," a witness said.

The blast flattened the factories' two workshops and tore apart the roof of the four-story office building. The factory had a business license but no license for production safety, according to the police. 

A spark from a substandard electric equipment was the cause of the massive explosion. - Official statistics show that in the first nine months of this year, a total of 98 such accidents  happened across the nation, killing 209 people, up 24% from the same period last year.

Source:

"Fireworks factory explosion kills 36", 31.12.2003, http://china.org.cn/english/2003/Dec/83648.htm

Environmental Compliance and Enforcement in CHINA, http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/33/5/37867511.pdf 

"Fireworks factory explosion kills 36 in Liaoning" (article with pictures), 30.12.2003, http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2003-12/30/content_1254765.htm

"Fireworks blast in Liaoning kills 38", 31.12.2003, http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/en/doc/2003-12/31/content_294682.htm

"Cause of fireworks factory blast traced", 8.1.2004, http://news.xinhuanet.com/english/2004-01/08/content_1266963.htm

Xinpu village, Hunan's Xinhua county. Three were killed (one instantly while two others died from their burns in hospital) and about 20 others injured in an explosion at a fireworks factory. 30.12.2003

Source: "Mine blast, firework explosion kills 10 in China", 31.12.2003, http://www.expressindia.com/fullstory.php?newsid=27262

The Spring Festival, which starts on January 22, when many people in China will celebrate the festival by setting off firecrackers, though some big cities like Beijing and Shanghai have banned firecrackers for many years.

("Fireworks blast in Liaoning kills 38", 31.12.2003, http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/en/doc/2003-12/31/content_294682.htm)

2002

Nach einer Explosion in einer Feuerwerksfabrik im Osten Chinas sind zwanzig weitere Leichen geborgen worden. Damit erhöht sich die Zahl der Todesopfer auf mindestens 29. Dutzende Menschen werden noch vermisst. 2.1.2002

Quelle: http://www.taz.de/pt/2002/01/02/a0029.nf/text.name,askl3Tppw.n,7

Kreis Shangli, Provinz Jiangxi. Bei einer Explosion in einer Feuerwerksfabrik wurden mindestens 3 Menschen getötet und mehr als 20 weitere verletzt. 7.1.2002

Quelle: http://www.bjrundschau.com/ZM/2002-11-ZM-1.htm

Jiangxi ist mit einem Produktionswert von 1,48 Mrd. Yuan und 200 000 Beschäftigten die zweitgrößte Feuerwerkherstellungsbasis Chinas. Die in Jiangxi hergestellten Feuerwerkkörper werden in mehr als 60 Ländern und Regionen abgesetzt. 
80% der während des im letzten Oktober stattgefundenen Shanghai-APEC-Treffens abgebrannten Feuerwerkkörper, waren in Jiangxi hergestellt worden. Auch die meisten zu Festlichkeiten in Hong Kong angezündeten Feuerwerkkörper stammen aus Jiangxi. Der Kreis Shangli ist die ,Heimat des Feuerwerks'. Die Einnahmen aus der Feuerwerkindustrie machen 80% der gesamten Finanzeinnahmen dieses Kreises aus, und 52% des Einkommens pro Bauer stammen aus dieser Branche. 

Die Feuerwerksindustrie produziert jährlich Waren im Wert von umgerechnet rund 197 Millionen Euro. Dadurch entstehen Steuereinnahmen von 47,5 Millionen Euro. Im vergangenen Jahr hatten die Behörden Xinhua zufolge 273.000 dieser illegalen Fabriken geschlossen. 

Quelle: "China: Schliessung von 9000 Feuerwerksfabriken geplant", 9.1.2002, http://www.tagesschau.de/aktuell/meldungen/0,1185,OID466946,00.html

Yongzhou, Hunan province. The manager (who was among the dead) of a fireworks factory caused a deadly explosion by using a scythe to cut fuses, it was revealed yesterday. Six people died. The plant was operating without a licence, when the blast occurred on January 10, 2002.

Source: "Firework ban after fatal spark", 15.1.2002, http://www.guardian.co.uk/china/story/0,7369,633518,00.html

Firework factories are to be closed down in China's impoverished eastern province of Jiangxi following a series of fatal explosions. About 200'000 people work in 9'000 firework factories in Jiangxi and will need to find new jobs.

The Hong Kong-based Information Centre for Human Rights in China said officials used the fireworks business to subsidise the education department’s income.

The ban will be phased in over 12 months. Traditonal firecrackers have been banned from many cities, including Beijing, because they are both dangerous and extremely noisy. Guangdong in south China has similar ban on firework production.

"Firework ban leaves 200'000 jobless", 10.1.2002: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/1753405.stm

Xinta Village, Yongxing City of the mid-eastern Province of Hunan. The factory owner Liu Junping, his wife and their 13-year-old son and three workers were killed and two critically injured in an explosion in an illegally operated fireworks factory. 19.1.2002

Source: "Six people killed in Hunan fireworks explosion", 19.1.2002, http://www.china-labour.org.hk/en/node/4492

Xinta Village, Yongxing City, Südchinesische Provinz Hunan. Bei einer Explosion in einer illegalen Feuerwerkskörper-Werkstatt starben der Fabrikbesitzer Liu Junping, seine Frau und sein 13-jähriger Sohn sowie drei Fabrikarbeiter. Zwei weitere Personen wurden schwer verletzt. 19.1.2002

Quelle: "Tödliche Böller", 21.1.2002, http://www.berlinonline.de/berliner-kurier/archiv/.bin/dump.fcgi/2002/0121/allgemeines/0224/index.html 

Xingyang, Provinz Henan. Raketen eines Verkaufsstandes im Erdgeschoss eines Einkaufszentrums fingen Feuer, nachdem ein Kunde einen Feuerwerkskörper ausprobieren wollte. Anschliessend explodierte das Lager mit Feuerwerkskörpern im zweiten Stock. Da es vor Ort kein Wasser gab, dauerte es lange, bis der Brand gelöscht werden konnte. Mindestens neun Menschen kamen ums Leben.

Quelle: 

"Feuerwerksexplosion: Neun Tote in China", 10.2.2002, http://www.tagesschau.de/aktuell/meldungen/0,1185,OID552504,00.html

"Feuerwerk im Laden ausprobiert: Neun Tote", 11.2.2002, Basler Zeitung

Beijing. Illegal fireworks displays injured 260 people during this month's lunar New Year holiday. Many of those injured were children, some as young as 4, who were burned on the face and hands. Fireworks were also blamed for a number of fires over the week-long holiday. 11.2.2002

Source: "Illegal fireworks injure 260 in Beijing over Chinese new year", 25.2.2002, http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/en/doc/2002-02/25/content_108031.htm

Jiangxi Province has decided to phase out fireworks production and shift to other undertakings, said Jiangxi Governor Huang Zhiquan at a press conference held by the ongoing annual session of the National People's Congress.

The provincial government will see to it that fireworks producers would not lose their jobs and townships that have financial difficulties due to stoppage of fireworks production would get financial support from the provincial governement.

"Jiangxi to phase out fireworks production", 14.3.2002, http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200203/14/eng20020314_92055.shtml

Taigu County, Shanxi province (north China). Six people were killed and another was reported missing after a blast at a the Taigu Fireworks Plant and eight people were injured, one of them seriously. Six of the seven workshops were demolished and most windows of the factory buildings were shattered. 16.8.2002

Source: "Six killed in North China fireworks plant blast", 19.8.2002, http://service.china.org.cn/link/wcm/Show_Text?info_id=39782&p_qry=fireworks

Nordchina. Bei der Explosion einer illegalen Feuerwerksfabrik wurden 13 Menschen getötet. 

Quelle: 3.12.2002, http://www.taz.de/pt/2002/12/03/a0060.nf/text

Beijing/China launched a campaign to warn students across the city against the dangers of setting off fireworks 10 years after a ban on fireworks in the city. A task force of experts from local public security departments and hospitals started the campaign in Beihai Middle School and will visit other schools over the next few days.

"Experts warn Beijing students against fireworks", 25.12.2002, http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200212/25/eng20021225_109054.shtml

Shiling, Zentralprovinz Jiangxi. In der Feuerwerksfabrik kam es zu einer Explosion, die zu einer weiteren Explosion in der danebengelegenen Schule führte. Dort fertigten Kinder Feuerwerkskörper an. 34 Bewohner starben, 16 davon Kinder.

Die Feuerwerksfertigung ist eine Industrie der Armen. Auf der Suche nach billigen Arbeitskräften ziehen die Fabriken immer weiter ins ärmliche Hinterland. Allein in dermProvinz Jiangxi arbeiten 200'000 Menschen in der Feuerwerksindustrie. Mit einem Umsatz von einer halben Milliarde Euro ist China der weltweit größte Hersteller und Exporteur von Feuerwerkskörpern.Trotz offizieller Verbote arbeiten weiter Tausende Kinder in Chinas Feuerwerksindustrie. Ihr Schicksal wird meist nur dann bekannt, wenn es schon zu spät ist. Ein paar Dörfer weiter von Shiling, im Nachbar-Landkreis Wanzai, explodierte im März des vergangenen Jahres ebenfalls eine Schule. Die Kinder waren von den Lehrern gezwungen worden, nach dem Unterricht Feuerwerkskörper zusammenzustecken und so die Schulgebühren zu bezahlen. Im Landkreis Shangli kam es in den vergangenen beiden Jahren zu mindestens vier Explosionen mit insgesamt mehr als 50 Toten. 28.12.2002                                  Bitte lesen Sie den gesamten Artikel!

Quelle: 

"Explosive Gesellschaft", 28.12.2002, http://www.tagesspiegel.de 

"Funkenregen auf den kleinen Huang Kang. In Chinas Feuerwerksfabriken bauen Kinder Lunten in Böller – manche bezahlen dafür mit ihrem Leben.", 28.12.2002, http://www.friedensforum-duisburg.de/2002/0212/feuerwerk.htm

Mit einem Umsatz von einer halben Milliarde Euro ist China der weltweit größte Hersteller und Exporteur von Feuerwerkskörpern, ein Teil der Ausfuhren geht auch nach Deutschland. Zwar hat die Regierung Gesetze erlassen, um die Produktion sicher zu machen. Kontrolliert werden aber meist nur die Exportbetriebe... Um mit den gnadenlos niedrigen Preisen der Konkurrenz mithalten zu können, lassen aber auch Exportfirmen das Feuerwerk in unkontrollierter Heimarbeit von Bauern fertigen. In den von Behörden beaufsichtigten Fabriken werden die Produkte oft nur beschriftet und verpackt. 

Quelle: "Explosive Gesellschaft", 28.12.2002, http://www.tagesspiegel.de/  

2001

Beijing. Dense smoke from fireworks in Shenzhen's Bao'an District forced three passenger planes heading for the special economic zone to stay in the air longer than scheduled on February 7, 2001, the night of China's annual Lantern Festival. Local police and airport officials helped clear the fireworks area quickly after the fireworks fair finished, and the three planes then found their landing spots. Fireworks fair officials said they did not realize the smoke could block planes' landing.

Source: "Smoke, fireworks delay planes' landing", 12.2.2001, http://202.84.17.11/english/htm/20010212/357702.htm

Fanglin, China's southeastern Jiangxi province. A huge explosion at a school fireworks factory that killed at least 41 people and injured more than 30 others. The death toll, put by some reports at around 60 including many children, was expected to rise further. The explosion flattened a large part of the two-storey school building. Children as young as eight were putting fuses into firecrackers when the explosion occurred. The site was littered with paper used to wrap firecrackers.

Students had been producing fireworks inside the school for the past 3 years and parents had complained several times to local officials. 6.3.2001

Source:

"'Student fireworks factory' caused China school blast", 7.3.2001, http://www.cnn.com/2001/WORLD/asiapcf/east/03/07/china.school.blast.02/

"Fireworks blast' kills 41 at China school", 7.3.2001, http://www.guardian.co.uk/international/story/0,3604,447914,00.html

Provinz Shaanxi. Bei der Explosion illegal gelagerter Feuerwerkskörper kamen mindestens 41 Menschen ums Leben, 89 weitere wurden verletzt. Erste Ermittlungen ergaben, dass ein Mann die Feuerwerkskörper im Haus seines Bruders gelagert hatte, nachdem die Behörden seine illegale Feuerwerksfabrik geschlossen hatten. 16.7.2001

Quelle: 

17.7.2001, Aargauer Zeitung und

"Feuerwerk explodiert", 17.7.2001, http://www.tagblatt.ch/index.php?archivsuche=545346&jahr=2001&seite=4&ressortcode=tb-sa&ressort=tagblattheute/schauplatz&ms=hauptseite 

Liji Township, suburban Wuhan, capital of Central China's Hubei Province. A Fireworks and firecracker warehouse exploded: 17 people were killed and another 13 were injured. 19.9.2001

Source: "Suspect in fireworks blast wanted", 21.9.2001, http://www.chinadaily.com.cn/en/doc/2001-09/21/content_84641.htm

Linyi of Shandong Province. 2 death and nearby buildings damaged in a underground fireworks factory explosion. The factory, claiming to be a wood processing company, actually made fireworks! 30.10.2001

Guotai, Kreis Lulu (Provinz Guangxi). Eine Explosion ereignete sich in der Feuerwerksfabrik in Guotai, 2 Menschen starben. 13.12.2001

Quelle: http://www.minghui.de/2002/01/mh_medienberichte_284.htm

Heute ist die Feuerwerksproduktion eine Industrie der Armen. Neben Tausenden legalen Firmen gibt es in China eine riesige Untergrundproduktion. Im chinesischen Hinterland stecken Bauern, die von der Landwirtschaft alleine nicht mehr leben können, für Pfennigbeträge die Zündschnüre von Hand in die Böller. Weil die Produktion zu Hause stattfindet, gibt es keine Sicherheitsvorschriften.

Chinas Staatsmedien berichteten dieses Jahr von zwölf tödlichen Unfällen in Feuerwerksfabriken. Die tatsächliche Zahl dürfte ein Vielfaches höher liegen. Insgesamt gab es in der ersten Jahreshälfte 2001 in China 350'000 Industrieunfälle. Menschenrechtsgruppen rechnen mit Hunderten Toten und Verletzten jedes Jahr in der Böller-Produktion. Das Schwarzpulver wird meist ungesichert gelagert, oft auch in Wohnhäusern oder Schulen.

"Gefährliches Geschäft mit den Böllern": 27.12.2001, http://www.ksta.de/servlet/ContentServer?pagename=ksta/page&atype=ksArtikel&aid=1009114519874&calledPageId=1037365920648

Huangmao, Eastern Jiangxi province's Wanzai county. Some sources told of 34 deaths other sources told that more than 40 people died in the explosions which destroyed a warehouse and 10 workshops at the Panda Export Fireworks Company. 61 people were injured. Thousands of people are said to have fled the area for fear of further explosions. 

A deceased worker accidentally ignited explosives while filling fireworks. 30.12.2001

Source:

"9 killed in China fireworks explosion", 30.12.2001, http://www.upi.com/International_Intelligence/Analysis/2001/12/31/9_killed_in_china_fireworks_explosion/8661/print_view/

"40 dead in Chinese fireworks blast", 1.1.2002, http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/1734376.stm 

Environmental Compliance and Enforcement in CHINA, http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/33/5/37867511.pdf 

"Death toll from fireworks explosion climbs", 5.1.2002, http://english.peopledaily.com.cn/200201/05/eng20020105_88079.shtml

Huangmao, Provinz Jiangxi, Kreis Wanzai. In der Feuerwerkfabrik  Panda Fireworks Manufacturing Co., Ltd, die örtlich grösste ihrer Art, kam es zu einer grossen Explosion. Der Xinhua-Nachrichtenagentur zufolge kamen 14 Menschen bei der Explosion ums Leben, 16 Menschen wurden verletzt und 2 blieben vermisst. 28 private Wohnhäuser wurden zerstört und 30 weitere schwer beschädigt.

Meng Jiangzhu, Sekretär des Parteikomitees der Provinz unter der KPCh, auf einer Wirtschaftskonferenz der Provinz Jiangxi, die am folgenden Tag stattfand, verlangte, daß in Zukunft kein derartiges gefährliches Herstellungsunternehmen mehr in der Provinz Jiangxi genehmigt werden sollte und sich die vorhandenen derartigen Unternehmen auf die Herstellung anderer Produkte umstellen sollten. Da die Feuerwerkindustrie das Leben und Eigentum der lokalen Bevölkerung schwerwiegend gefährdet, ist die Provinzregierung entschlossen, diese Produktionsbranche in der ganzen Provinz stillzulegen. 30.12.2001

http://www.bjrundschau.com/ZM/2002-11-ZM-1.htm

2000

Anhui province, eastern China. Up to 22 people, including 11 children, are killed in a blast at an unregistered fireworks factory. 13.1.2000

Source: "Timeline: Deadly explosives accidents", 30.12.2001, http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/1733991.stm

Chongqing, Yunyang. Feuerwerkskörper explodieren in Bus: 21 Tote, 10 Verletzte. 10.3.2002

Source: http://www.swissre.com/INTERNET/pwsfilpr.nsf/vwFilebyIDKEYLu/MPDL-5L8BRA/$FILE/sigma2_2003_d_rev.pdf

Eastern province of Jiangxi. An explosion at a fireworks factory killed 33 people and injured 10 others. 10.3.2000

Source: Environmental Compliance and Enforcement in CHINA, http://www.oecd.org/dataoecd/33/5/37867511.pdf 

Jiangmen City/south China's Guangdong Province. The death toll in the explosion of a 3,200 square-metre fireworks factory has risen to 36, leaving 160 people injured and more than 30 missing. There were more than 1,000 police and fire fighters and 16 fire trucks. 

Investigators believe that the explosion was ignited by sparks produced by employees pounding iron nails inside the warehouse building.

The explosion blew off roofs, shattered windows and collapsed walls of buildings up to one kilometre away. Most of the injuries were caused by flying debris, local doctors said.

The Jiangmen municipal government has established seven special task forces to handle compensation to victims' families and other affairs in the aftermath. Initial compensations worth 500,000 yuan (US$60,240) have been sent to Jiangmen. 30.6.2000

Source: 

"Killer blast at Chinese Factory", 30.6.2000, http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/813436.stm

"Death toll up to 36 in fireworks factory explosion", 3.7.2000, http://english.people.com.cn/english/200007/03/eng20000703_44528.html

Hundreds of fireworks factories in southern China have been ordered to shut down for safety checks following a huge explosion at a plant on June 30, 2000. 

Source: "China closes fireworks factories", 30.6.2000, http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/815580.stm

Jiangxi Province. At least 21 people are killed and 25 others are injured in an explosion at an illegal fireworks factory. Officials say the blast, which destroyed a five storey building, was probably caused by a dropped cigarette. 5.8.2000

Source: "Timeline: Deadly explosives accidents", 30.12.2001, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/1733991.stm

Xincao Village, Xinjin county in southwest China's Sichuan Province. The proprietor of the illegal fireworks workshop was killed instantly and seven others injured (the wife, son and relatives of the proprietor were among the injured) in a fireworks explosion. 19.9.2000

Source: "Fireworks explosion kills one, injures seven in SW China, 20.9.2000, http://english.people.com.cn/english/200009/20/eng20000920_50983.html

Hongren Village, Mianyang City/Sichuan Province/Zitong County. An explosion at the Meile Fireworks Plant killed seven people on the spot and three others died when houses nearby collapsed. Another died of injuries later in a local hospital. Six people were injured. 9.12.2000

Source:

"Sichuan fireworks blast kills eleven", 12.12.2000, http://service.china.org.cn/link/wcm/Show_Text?info_id=5175&p_qry=fireworks

"11 killed in fireworks factory explosion", 11.12.2000, http://service.china.org.cn/link/wcm/Show_Text?info_id=5149&p_qry=fireworks

1999

Anhui province in the east. An explosion at an unregistered fireworks factory has killed 11 children and several adults. 

Source: "Fireworks blast kills eleven children", 13.1.1999, http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/254017.stm

Peking. Ein Bauer hatte versucht, Feuerwerkskörper illegal in seinem Haus herzustellen, diese explodierten: 9 Menschen starben. 

Quelle: "Tödliches Feuerwerk", 6.4.1999, http://www.berlinonline.de/berliner-kurier/archiv/.bin/dump.fcgi/1999/0406/allgemeines/0188/index.html?group=berliner-kurier&sgroup=&day=today&suchen=1&keywords=Peking+Feuerwerksk%C3%B6rper&search_in=archive&author=&ressort=&von=01.04.1999&bis=10.04.1999

1998

Susun. Bei einer Explosion in einer illegalen Fabrik für Feuerwerkskörper kamen 17 Menschen (davon 3 Kinder) ums Leben. 20.1.1998

Peking. Origin of accident: Road accident, explosion / Products involved: Fireworks / Number of Deaths: 40; Injured: 100 / 24.1.1998

Source: List "Disasters by Date", http://www.uneptie.org/pc/apell/disasters/lists/disasterdate.html

47 people are reported killed in a series of explosions at a fireworks factory near Beijing. Chinese media says fireworks sellers demonstrating their wares are thought to have set off sparks which ignited fireworks stored in vehicles nearby. 13.2.1998

Source: "Timeline: Deadly explosives accidents", 30.12.2001, http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/1733991.stm

Huizhou. Bei einer Explosion in einer Feuerwerksfabrik gab es mindestens 8 Tote und 69 Verletzte. 19.5.1998

Source: http://www.swissre.com/INTERNET/pwsfilpr.nsf/vwFilebyIDKEYLu/MBAR-4VNDM5/$FILE/sigma1_1999_d.pdf 

1997

Provinz Zhejiang. "Magische Funken" genannte Kugeln, die Kinder mit Pistolen abschiessen können, steckten hinter einer folgenschweren Explosion. Der Keller eines Hauses flog in die Luft, weil die Kugeln Feuerwerkskörper und nebenan gelagertes Birnenöl entzündet hatten. 18 Menschen starben. September 1997

Quelle: "Feuerwerkskörper. Chinesisches Roulette", 27.8.2003, http://www.faz.net/s/RubB08CD9E6B08746679EDCF370F87A4512/Doc~EBE0037608E5240D280ED6721BE316C07~ATpl~Ecommon~Scontent.html

1996  

Piya, Sichuan Province. Explosion at an illegal fireworks factory: at least 36 workers and passers-by killed and 52 people injured, including three who were in critical condition with serious burns. 29.6.1996

Source: 

List "Explosion" of "The British Association for Immediate Care (BASICS)", http://www.basedn.freeserve.co.uk/explosion.htm

"Fireworks explosion kills 36 in China", 3.7.1996, http://www.nytimes.com

Im zentralchinesischen Hefeng werden 40 Arbeiter einer Feuerwerksfabrik durch eine Explosion getötet. Die Behörden zählen 47 Verletzte. Die Detonation war im Umkreis von zehn Kilometern zu spüren. Juli 1996

Anhui Province. Incident/Ereignis: Illegal fireworks factory, explosion. 20.10.1996

Source: List "Explosion" of "The British Association for Immediate Care (BASICS)", http://www.basedn.freeserve.co.uk/explosion.htm

Sichuan. Bei einer privaten Fertigungsstätte entzündeten sich Feuerwerkskörper. 17 Menschen kamen ums Leben. 4.12.1996

1993

Nanshankou. Origin of accident: Explosion / Products involved: Fireworks / Number of Deaths: 27; Injured: 2 / 29.8.1993

Source: List "Disasters by Date", http://www.uneptie.org/pc/apell/disasters/lists/disasterdate.html

Dulin. Origin of accident: Explosion, fire ball / Products involved: Fireworks, Gun powder / Number of Deaths: 26 / 25.11.1993

Source: List "Disasters by Date", http://www.uneptie.org/pc/apell/disasters/lists/disasterdate.html

1992

Ostchinesische Provinz Anhui. In einer Fabrik explodierten 700 Kisten mit Feuerwerkskörpern. 11 Kinder, die in der Fabrik arbeiteten, starben. 17.7.1992

Quelle: Elf Kinder tot", 17.7.1992, OoeNachrichten

1989

Henan. Origin of accident: Explosion / Products involved: Fireworks / Number of Deaths: 27; Injured: 22 / 19.1.1989

Quelle: Aus der Liste "Disasters by Date", http://www.uneptie.org/pc/apell/disasters/lists/disasterdate.html

1982

Canton. Explosion in a fireworks factory: 17 workers killed and 24 others injured.

Source: "17 killed in Canton explosion", 7.6.1982, http://www.nytimes.com

1977

Yili, Provinz Xinjiang. Der Feuerwerkskörper eines Schülers (12) setzte einen Stapel von Kränzen in einem Filmtheater in Brand. 694 Menschen (davon 597 Kinder zwischen 7 und 16 Jahren) starben in dem Feuer. 18.2.1977

Quelle: "Brandkatastrophe in Club", 26.4.1995, http://www.nachrichten.at

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