On 13 May, a road tanker loaded with 21 tons of petrol collided with a truck on the Feng Guan Expressway near Lianyungang, Jiangsu province, killing the tanker driver and his assistant. China News Agency reported that the Lianyungang Fire Brigade dispatched 22 fire engines with more than a hundred firemen and that the fire took five hours to extinguish. The city’s Emergency Response Office dispatched another tanker to transfer the remaining petrol safely. The cause of the accident is still being investigated.

On the same day elsewhere in Jiangsu province, a leakage in Jiangyin Huangtu New Star Chemical Plant intoxicated students in a secondary school just 50 metres away. The leakage happened around 3pm during the production of Di-tert-butyl dicarbonate, a reagent widely used in organic synthesis. The students inhaled the toxic gas and 32 of them were rushed to the hospital.