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Common Dreams reports:
The death toll from this week's fiery explosions at the Chinese port of Tianjin climbed above 100 on Saturday, while confusion spread over whether authorities had ordered the evacuation of everyone within two miles amid fears of chemical contamination.
[...] Anti-chemical warfare troops have entered the site, according to the BBC.
[...] Two Chinese news outlets, including the state-run The Paper, reported that the warehouse was storing 700 tons of sodium cyanide--70 times more than it should have been holding at one time--and that authorities were rushing to clean it up.
Sodium cyanide is a toxic chemical that can form a flammable gas upon contact with water.
[...] "The company that owned the warehouse where the blasts originated, Rui Hai International Logistics, appears to have violated Chinese law by operating close to apartment buildings and worker dormitories", journalist Andrew Jacobs reports for [NYTimes] (paywall). "Residents say they were unaware that the company was handling dangerous materials."
About 6,300 people have been displaced by the blasts, with around 721 injured and 33 in serious condition, Xinhua news agency said. At least 21 firefighters are reported dead.
Related: Large Warehouse Explosions Injure 300-400 in Tianjin, China
For the adulterated baby formula abuses of 2008 (4 infants dead; 12,892 hospitalized), 2 people were executed. One wonders what will come of this case.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Sunday August 16 2015, @07:34PM
I would love to see a few thousand CEOs, bank executives, criminal cops, corrupt judges (like the two that stole the lives of thousands of children that they sentenced to serve time in a private prison for millions of dollars in kick-backs), corrupt politicians, etc., hanged, guillotined, drawn and quartered, or other execution by exhibition.
A death penalty for crimes of passion / mental illness, like murder has no deterrent effect and should be abolished. But, a death penalty against scheming rich parasites and their sycophants is far more likely to have a deterrent effect. Especially, if it is carried out enough times that the parasites have a reasonable fear that they will succumb to one of these ignoble deaths.