Huge Fire Breaks Out at Sinopec’s Shanghai Complex, Leaving 1 Dead

A huge fire broke out Saturday at the headquarters of a petrochemical facility in southeast Shanghai and at least one person died.

The fire started around at 4 a.m. at an ethylene glycol processing unit owned by Sinopec Shanghai Petrochemical, a state-owned oil company whose headquarters are in an industrial park in the suburban Jinshan district.

Firefighters were able to put the blaze under control, the company said in a statement posted to its Chinese social media account. Sinopec said a “third-party driver” had died in the disaster and that one of its employees was injured.

Article source: https://www.nytimes.com/2022/06/17/business/shanghai-explosions-fire-sinopec.html