Exclusive | Wounded volunteer tells of risky clean-up at Chinese fireworks blast scene
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As rescuers and volunteers worked to stabilise scene after deadly explosion, witnesses describe overwhelming smell of burnt gunpowder.

A rescuer at the site of an explosion that killed 26 people and injured 61 in Hunan’s Liuyang city has described the dangerous and extremely difficult clean-up mission amid gunpowder and sparks after he and others were wounded by secondary blasts on Tuesday morning. An excavator operator surnamed Xiao said he volunteered to aid rescue work at the site of the initial fireworks plant blast which occurred at the Huasheng Fireworks Manufacturing and Display Company on Monday. Xiao described…

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