6 die in China fireworks accident
Published: Sept. 13, 2010 at 1:57 AM

ArticleListenComments.Share SHIJIAZHUANG, China, Sept. 13 (UPI) -- Illegally stored fireworks were to blame for a weekend blast that killed six people at a recycling station in a northern China village, authorities said Sunday.

The explosion, which occurred at 3:30 p.m. Saturday in Qianying Village, also left four people injured, Xinhua reported.

The dead included the recycling station's owner and four family members, along with a 12-year-old neighborhood girl who had had stopped by, the state-run news agency said.