People injured in chemical plant explosion receive medical treatment in hospital

Ophthalmologists Zhang Weiwei (R) and Li Jian treat an injured of a factory explosion at the intensive care unit in the First People's Hospital of Yancheng in Yancheng, east China's Jiangsu Province, March 23, 2019. The explosion happened at about 2:48 p.m. Thursday following a fire that broke out in a plant owned by Jiangsu Tianjiayi Chemical Co. Ltd., in a chemical industrial park in Xiangshui County in the city of Yancheng. Thousands of firefighters and medical workers and hundreds of ambulances and fire trucks have joined an all-out rescue after the explosion. Sixteen hospitals in Yancheng have accepted 617 injured people so far, 523 of which have minor injuries. (Xinhua/Ji Chunpeng)