He and at least 520 injured, and more than 60 of them in critical condition Tianjin Short Codes government Lipo, the fires are still burning in the official New China News Agency said.
The explosion on Wednesday night, they were viewed by satellites in space, so that the large, residential buildings, six kilometers from the port of 15 million people sent a shock. And a video on the internet bet to go up in the sky and the US Geological Survey recorded a seismic event showed the explosion.
Huge areas of Port - - the world's top 10 new cars, witnesses and demolishing buildings, like the match thrown into shipping containers around the crumpled, burning hundreds of burned-out shell of the port, told Reuters that as the left.
He told Reuters by telephone. "Shook the windows and doors of a sudden we heard the explosion when I was sleeping. I thought at first he" blasts away from the site of the earthquake, 7 km (4 km) in the Guan Xiang.
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Said the young man, 24, as she and the other residents of the building, he struggled to get out of the flames and saw a mushroom cloud in the sky.
Tianjin authorities from 44 to 12 firefighters were dead.
It is investigating the cause of the explosion, but Xinhua said the fire's advance in different containers. After three decades of rapid economic growth in industrial accidents are not uncommon in China. Metal dust filled the room burst into the East China Auto Parts factory blast that killed 75 people last year.
They had lost all contact with the authorities, 36 state firefighters Fire Tianjin Beijing News cited an earlier time. Xinhua afternoon, hundreds of around 18 to 66 who are being treated in hospitals, while he was missing.
Xinhua said more than 1,000 firefighters and 140 fire engines "dangerous goods" in the struggle to contain the fire to a warehouse.
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"Fire in the volatility of unpredictable and dangerous means to approach," Xinhua said.
According to the Beijing News, he destroyed several fire trucks and neighbors wept as firefighters work to extinguish the flames.
President Xi Jinping, "rescue and treat the injured and to ensure the safety of people and the resources to make a full effort." Government urged
She said, "dealt with severely" should be carried out by the state media said in a statement.
City officials recently in dealing with hazardous chemicals tightening safety standards to meet with the company to discuss. Work Safety Administration of Tianjin Port on its Web site a week ago, the company published a notice about the meeting.
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Possible toxic fumes
Residents were eager for news about their loved ones to be admitted to hospital. Reuters witnesses dozens of police officers guarded the entrance to the hospital, the TEDA.
Images in the media who have fled from their home site of the residents and staff, and some bleeding, showed. Xinhua broken glass and other debris flying may hurt people said. He said 6,000 people from their homes in the dark before the explosion, authorities told reporters to expect.
Paramilitary police carrying trucks on the site of the blast and smoke-gray clouds - the region's - wearing masks to protect them from toxic fumes.
2 km around the site of the explosion shattered the walls of buildings and vehicles and shattered windows. Multi-storey car park at the burnt-out picture of the supply base showed the news site.
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The initial explosion in an apartment building at a distance from the scene showed what appears to be placed on YouTube, followed in second place, and much larger, and explosions. After the second shock hit the building.
"We have a building to vibrate. This is a nuclear bomb?" Frantically inside voice.
Despite the devastation, said an official at the port is operating normally. Tianjin Port in northern China, is the entrance to the industrial belt.
Xinhua explosion, TNT equivalent of the first 3 tons and 21 tons of TNT in the second, he ripped through a warehouse.
News from the center of Beijing, Tianjin has gone from a party, the International Atomic Energy Agency to respond to environmental emergencies, as well as 214 military nuclear biochemical experts said Chinese and materials.
Ruihai International Logistics and warehouse in Tianjin Dongjiang port selection owner. The company's website, "dangerous product" has been approved by the government in dealing with the particular company. No one at the company immediately available for comment.
Environmental inspectors, according to the government's assessment, published in 2014, the chemical, an industrial solvent devices, including many hazardous and toxic sodium cyanide and auto-butanone has been designed for the storage facility.
CCTV and "the company" has been arrested at least one person.....