{"id":26978,"date":"2018-12-26T10:23:18","date_gmt":"2018-12-26T10:23:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=26978"},"modified":"2018-12-26T10:23:18","modified_gmt":"2018-12-26T10:23:18","slug":"china-three-students-killed-beijing-university-lab-explosion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=26978","title":{"rendered":"China: Three students killed Beijing university lab explosion"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-200771816342556199\" readability=\"78.950834065\">\n<p class=\"speakable\">Three students have been killed in a laboratory blast at a Beijing university, the city&#8217;s fire department said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">&#8220;There was an explosion at the experimental site during a scientific research experiment&#8221; on wastewater treatment in the Environmental Engineering Laboratory, the Beijing Fire Department said on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"speakable\">&#8220;The accident caused three students to die,&#8221; it added in a statement posted on its social media account.<\/p>\n<p>The incident occurred just after 9:30am local time (01:30 GMT) at the Beijing Jiaotong University in the western part of the city.<\/p>\n<p>Videos of the scene, broadcast on local media, showed large flames and plumes of smoke pouring out of a low-rise building on the university campus.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\" readability=\"4.83794466403\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Breaking: Explosion occurred in the laboratory of Beijing Jiaotong University while the students were carrying out the landfill leachate treatment test. <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/China?src=hash&#038;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#China<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2AeQSRvM2H\">pic.twitter.com\/2AeQSRvM2H<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Eva Zheng \u90d1\u6021\u658c \u0639\u0627\u0626\u0634\u0629 (@evazhengll) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/evazhengll\/status\/1077809202536558592?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 26, 2018<\/a>\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>About 30 fire engines were sent to the scene and took nearly an hour to get the blaze under control.<\/p>\n<p>Local authorities are launching an investigation into the cause of the incident.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three students have been killed in a laboratory blast at a Beijing university, the city&#8217;s fire department said.\u00a0 &#8220;There was an explosion at the experimental site during a scientific research experiment&#8221; on wastewater treatment in the Environmental Engineering Laboratory, the Beijing Fire Department said on Wednesday. &#8220;The accident caused three students to die,&#8221; it added&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":26979,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26978","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26978","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26978"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26978\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/26979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26978"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26978"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26978"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}