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16 pm 15: 30, Sino-Singapore Jiangsu Station. Com released the latest news from the Propaganda Department of Rudong County Committee. At about 7: 50 this morning, the death toll caused by the template slip accident at the LNG receiving station in Xuyangkou Port has risen to eight, and five injured people are being rescued in Rudong People's Hospital and Rudong Chinese Medicine Hospital. The number of people evacuated safely also dropped from 99 to 97.

According to eyewitnesses, at present, the scene is a mess, and many workers are still trapped under the tank. Emergency ambulances are coming from Yangkou Avenue and Haiphong Highway. According to sources, the storage tank of PetroChina LNG project is scheduled to be completed next month. After the accident, the storage tank has been basically scrapped, with a loss of hundreds of millions of yuan. However, witnesses also said that the template slipped and did not cause serious damage to the tank.