Jilin+Chemcial+Plant+Explosion

On November 13th, 2005, in Jilin City in China, there was a Petrochemical Plant that exploded. There were a series of explosions that occurred within an hour that killed six people, and injured dozens. As a result of this explosion, thousands of residents of Jilin City were evacuated. The cause of the blasts were that one of the T-102 towers got jammed up, and was not properly handled. As a result of the explosions, there was a massive amount of water pollution in the Songhua River. The explosions poured over 100 tons of pollutions containing benzene and nitrobenzene.