Six executives detained following latest factory explosion in China
Factory that made adhesives located 300km from Tianjin disaster
Six company executives have been detained after the firm's chemical factory exploded late on Monday night in Shandong province, killing one person just three weeks after catastrophic blasts in the port city of Tianjin .
The factory in Lijin county exploded before midnight on Monday and the fire was brought under control about five hours later, according to the Dongying News website, run by the local city government.
The six executives, from the Shandong Binyuan Chemical Company that runs the factory, had been detained, the website said. The cause of the explosion was under investigation.
The company, located in the Lijin Binhai Economic and Technological Development Zone, produces adhesive materials. It did not answer calls for comment.
Calls to the Lijin propaganda department were not answered.