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00:15, 01-Jun-2017
Fire under control in north China's Tianjin Port, no casualties reported
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A fire at a paper company in north China's Tianjin Port has been brought under control, said Xinhua News Agency citing local authorities on Wednesday night.
The fire broke out at the goods yard of Xinnan Paper Company on Wednesday night in the Binhai New Area, Tianjin Municipality.
The yard covers about 7,400 square meters, piled with nearly 10,000 tonnes of waste paper.
There are no residents and enterprises near the site of the fire, and no secondary disasters have occurred, according to local authorities.
No casualties have been reported and the cause of the incident is under investigation.
On August 12, 2015, a series of explosions killed 165 people and injured hundreds more at a warehouse in Tianjin Port. According to an investigation, the tragedy was a production safety accident caused by officials’ "very serious dereliction of duty."
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