Dozens of Chinese officials jailed over Tianjin explosions which killed 165

‘Forty-nine people have been sentenced to prison over a series of huge explosions in the northeastern Chinese city of Tianjin which killed at least 165 people in 2015.
A Chinese court sentenced 25 government officials and 24 company managers over the massive blasts in Tianjin warehouses last year, the Xinhua news agency said on Wednesday.
The explosions occurred shortly before midnight on August 12 2015, when two enormous explosions erupted from a shipment of explosives in a container storage station in the major transport hub.’
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