Tianjin blast

A total of 49 people have been detained in connection with chemical blasts in the Chinese port city of Tianjin last August that killed 165 people, the government said in a report.

Among those arrested were the chairman, vice-chairman and three deputy general managers of the logistics company that stored the chemicals which blew up.

Two weeks on since the blast in Tianjin, 38 people are reportedly missing while 582 remain hospitalised. Thirty-six are critical.

The fire last night in Huantai was put out after about five hours and authorities said no contamination has been detected.

A total of 50 websites are in the midst of being probed and shut down by the Chinese authorities for spreading rumours on the Tianjin blasts.

Here are a series of questions and answers explaining what is known about the Tianjin blasts, but also the fears over a lack of information about the chemicals that may have been dispersed.

A man in his fifties was rescued from the Tianjin blasts site on Saturday afternoon, reports China's Xinhua news agency.

Armed police were carrying out the evacuation after highly poisonous sodium cyanide was found at the site of the blast.

The number of people killed in giant explosions in the Chinese port of Tianjin has increased with hundreds others injured.

A team of 217 nuclear and biochemical materials specialists from the Chinese military had travelled to Tianjin to inspect the site.

Zhou Ti was pulled alive Friday from the rubble and was being treated for chest injuries at a hospital in Tianjin.

The blast at a warehouse used to store toxic chemicals and gas injured 700 people and killed at least 50 others.

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