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Source: People’s Republic of China – State Council News
YINCHUAN, May 30 (Xinhua) — A court in northwest China’s Ningxia Hui Autonomous Region on Friday sentenced 15 people to prison for their involvement in a 2023 gas explosion at a kebab shop that killed 31 people.
The 15 defendants in the case were given sentences ranging from one to six years for causing a major accident through negligence or for knowingly providing false supporting documents, the Yinchuan City Xingqing District People’s Court (NHAR administrative center) said.
Those convicted include investors and owners of the kebab shop Zhang Hongxian and Liu Guo, the actual owner of the gas supplier company Cui Wenbo, and the legal representative of the company for inspecting gas consumption facilities Zhou Zhiguo.
The court banned three of the accused from engaging in their professions for a certain period of time, and sentenced three others, who worked on the front lines and bear a lesser share of responsibility for what happened, to suspended sentences.
The Fuyang Kebab Tragedy in Yinchuan occurred on June 21, 2023. A liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) leak caused an explosion, killing 31 people and injuring 7 others.
As the court established, the direct culprit of the tragedy was the CIS distributor, who supplied the establishment with cylinders that did not meet standards, and during the operation of which errors were also made by the establishment’s staff.
Zhou Zhiguo and two employees of the gas consumption facility inspection company were found guilty of intentionally providing forged documents, which was considered a crime. -0-