Photo taken on Oct. 13, 2019 shows glass pieces on a car near the site of a gas explosion in Wuxi, east China's Jiangsu Province. Nine people are dead and 10 are injured as a gas explosion ripped apart a restaurant in east China's Jiangsu Province Sunday, local authorities said. The gas explosion happened at around 11 a.m. at a street snack bar among a row of three-story shops in Xishan District in the city of Wuxi, according to the city's publicity department. (Xinhua/Li Bo)
NANJING, Oct. 13 (Xinhua) -- Nine people are dead and 10 are injured as a gas explosion ripped apart a restaurant in east China's Jiangsu Province Sunday, local authorities said.
The gas explosion happened at around 11 a.m. at a street snack bar among a row of three-story shops in Xishan District in the city of Wuxi, according to the city's publicity department.
Rescue work finished at 5 p.m., and the injured were in stable condition, the department said.
The shops around the incident zone suffered varying degrees of damage.
