{"id":64402,"date":"2020-03-04T14:18:08","date_gmt":"2020-03-04T06:18:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=64402"},"modified":"2020-03-04T14:25:39","modified_gmt":"2020-03-04T06:25:39","slug":"36-injured-in-s-koreas-chemical-plant-explosion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/?p=64402","title":{"rendered":"36 Injured In S.Korea&#8217;s Chemical Plant Explosion"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>SEOUL, Mar 4 (NNN-YONHAP) &#8211; A total of 36 people were confirmed injured today (Wednesday), in a chemical plant explosion, in South Korea&#8217;s southwestern region, firefighting authorities reported.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The explosion occurred at about 2:59 a.m. local time, in a petrochemical factory of Lotte Chemical, in the southwest city of Seosan, South Chungcheong province.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The explosion caused a fire, which was extinguished about two hours later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Thirty-six people, including factory workers and villagers near the plant, were injured. Among the total, two were in critical condition, as of 10:00 a.m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The explosion was believed to have been caused by the leak of a compressor pipe to produce petrochemicals from naphtha. The exact cause of the incident was under investigation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tens of houses and shopping malls near the factory were affected by the explosion, with windows broken and the exterior walls of some buildings pulled down, according to the report.&#8211; NNN-YONHAP  <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SEOUL, Mar 4 (NNN-YONHAP) &#8211; A total of 36 people were confirmed injured today (Wednesday), in a chemical plant explosion, in South Korea&#8217;s southwestern region, firefighting authorities reported. The explosion occurred at about 2:59 a.m. local time, in a petrochemical factory of Lotte Chemical, in the southwest city of Seosan, South Chungcheong province. The explosion [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":64407,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[215,286,198],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64402"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64402\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/64407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/namnewsnetwork.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}