Beijing: At least seven people were killed and dozens of other injured in an explosion in a fast-food restaurant in northern Chinese city of Xian on Monday.
According to local media reports, most of the victims were children who were passing by the building on their way to school at the time of the explosion.
Xinhua quoted local officials and witnesses as saying it appeared to be a gas explosion at a restaurant serving traditional style hamburgers on the first floor of the building.
“Thirteen people were sent to our hospital, and three died — two male adults and a three-year-old girl. One is in a critical condition,” a doctor surnamed Han at the Shaanxi Renmin Hospital told AFP.
Doctors said victims had suffered head and facial injuries, Xinhua said.
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