Four people were killed and five others wounded in a fireworks explosion in southwest China’s Yunnan province, local authorities said on Friday.
The accident happened at a fireworks stall at about 11 p.m. on Thursday night in Tonghai County, the county information office said.
Two seriously wounded people have been taken to hospital in the provincial capital of Kunming, state-run Xinhua news agency reported.
Probe ongoing
The cause of the explosion is under investigation.
Though fireworks are banned in more than 400 Chinese cities, firecrackers are still popular across the country for Spring Festival and the Chinese New Year celebrations currently under way.
