AlHijjah 29, 1435, Oct 23, 2014, SPA -- A train accident left three people dead and one seriously injured on Wednesday night in northwest China's Gansu Province, local authorities said on Thursday.
A freight train numbered "10152" hit and ran over a (...)
A fire at a PetroChina oil refinery in Lanzhou, capital of northwest China's Gansu Province, has been contained without casualties.
The Lanzhou petrochemical subsidiary of PetroChina said the fire, triggered by a leakage from a fractional (...)
A 38-year-old man in northwest China's Gansu Province has died of plague, local authorities said.
The case was reported in Yumen City under the jurisdiction of Jiuquan City, Xinhua quoted the Jiuquan government as saying on Thursday. The man, who (...)
More than 2.4 million people in downtown Lanzhou, northwest China's Gansu Province, have been affected by tap water found to contain excessive levels of benzene, provincial authorities said on Friday.
Tests carried out in the early hours of Friday (...)
Health authorities in northwest China's Gansu Province said late Friday that they are investigating a new infant death linked to hepatitis B vaccination, the 11th such case in the country since November.
A baby in the provincial capital of Lanzhou (...)
Four people were killed and seven others injured in a road accident on Friday in northwest China's Gansu Province, local police said.
The accident occurred around 9:30 a.m. on a section of highway in Pingliang City. A bus with 35 people on board (...)
AlQa'dah 23, 1434, Sep 29, 2013, SPA -- Five people have died and 21 others have been left injured after a passenger bus collided with a semi-trailer in northwest China's Gansu Province on Sunday evening, authorities said.
The bus with 33 people on (...)
Seven people have died and 15 others remain missing following rain-triggered mudslides that occurred earlier this week in northwest China's Gansu Province, local authorities said Friday.
Two rain-triggered landslides on July 22 in the city of (...)
An agricultural tricycle rolled over into a roadside trench in northwest China's Gansu Province Sunday, leaving four passengers dead and the rest two aboard the vehicle injured, local authorities said.
The accident occurred at about 7 a.m. as the (...)
Four people were killed and another five injured on Sunday in a road crash in northwest China's Gansu Province, safety watchdog said.
The accident happened around 3 p.m. when a car registered in Shaanxi Province crashed into a semi-trailer along a (...)
Eleven people have been confirmed dead after a bus drove through a road barrier and fell into a ravine in Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region on Saturday, authorities said Sunday.
Officials from the county government of Longde said two survivors died in (...)
Floods from heavy rainstorms in northwest China killed one villager and left two others missing, UPI quoted officials as saying.
Lanzhou, the capital of Gansu province, was inundated with floodwater from 10 p.m. Sunday to early Monday, affecting (...)
Five people trapped in a copper mine in northwest China's Gansu Province have been found killed by gas poisoning.
According to the provincial work safety bureau, the five included two water-drainage workers who entered the mine, owned by Gansu (...)
Three villagers were killed and one was missing in a rainstorm-triggered flood on Sunday in Yongdeng county, in northwest China's Gansu province, local authorities said Monday.
On Sunday evening, four residents of Panggou village in Yongdeng were (...)
Four villagers were killed after a landslide buried their home Friday night in northwest China's Gansu province, local authorities said.
The accident occurred around 9:25 p.m. in a village of Yuzhong county, Lanzhou city, officials of Yuzhong said. (...)
Seven people died and another 15 were injured in three consecutive accidents early Saturday morning in Gangu county, northwest China's Gansu province, local police said.
The three accidents happened on a section of the Tianshui-Dingxi Highway, (...)
AlQa'dah 13, 1432, Oct 11, 2011, SPA -- Five people died and one was injured Monday night when a crane collapsed in northwest China's Gansu Province, local authorities said Tuesday.
The accident occurred at about 11 p.m. in a wind power equipment (...)
Four people were killed and 16 others injured during a fight between two groups of workers after one faction detonated explosives in northwestern Gansu Province on Friday.
The blast occurred at around 2:30 p.m. near a railway tunnel at a (...)
A fire has broken out on a national nature reserve in northwest China's Gansu Province, local authorities said Tuesday.
The fire broke out on the Liancheng National Natural Reserve. Authorities do not yet know when and where the fire started, said (...)
At least one person was killed Tuesday after rain-triggered landslides hit a township in Gansu Province, local government said.
A sudden and unexpected downpour pelted Tielou Township in Longnan City of Gansu from 4 a.m. to 4:36 a.m. Tuesday, (...)
A landslide in northwest China's Lanzhou City of Gansu Province buried five people Sunday at the construction site of a railway bridge, local authorities said.
The landslide occurred at 1:30 p.m. Sunday at the construction site of the second (...)
Thirteen people are dead after a landslide in northwest China's Gansu Province early Saturday.
A total of 15 people were buried in the landslide at 1:40 a.m. at Huating County, Pingliang City, Xinhua quoted a statement from the provincial (...)
Thirteen miners were trapped underground and three others have been lifted out of shaft safely after a coal mine in northwest China's Gansu Province flooded Sunday, local authorities said.
Sixteen miners were working down the shaft when the (...)
A coal mine gas leak left nine people dead in northwest China's Gansu Province Tuesday, local authorities said.
The accident happened at about 8:30 a.m. down the shaft of the Jinhe Coal Mining Company coal mine in Honggu District, Lanzhou City, (...)
At least four workers died and three others were injured after molten ore spewed from a furnace of a chemical plant in Gansu Province Tuesday, the local authority said Wednesday.
Ore being smelted in a huge furnace of the privately-run Huize (...)