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Cina - Ledakan hebat terjadi di sebuah rumah sakit di kota Yuanping, Provinsi Sanxhi, Cina, Senin (10/4/2006) pukul 02.25 waktu setempat. Setidaknya 15 orang yang umumnya merupakan pasien rumah sakit tersebut dikabarkan tewas.Ledakan berasal dari sebuah garasi rumah sakit milik perusahaan batubara dan energi Xuangang Coal Power Co. Ledakan tersebut juga merusak bangunan lainnya dalam radius dua kilometer.Seorang petugas di Dinas Kesehatan Yuanping kepada kantor berita www.chinaview.cn menyatakan belum bisa memastikan penyebab ledakan tersebut. Petugas tersebut memperkirakan jumlah korban akan terus bertambah.Tak lama setelah kejadian tersebut, angkatan bersenjata Cina langsung diterjunkan untuk membantu mengevakuasi para korban. China hospital blast kills 15: report17 minutes agoBEIJING (Reuters) - An explosion at a hospital China's northern province of Shanxi killed 15 people on Monday and the death toll may rise, a health official and Xinhua news agency said.The source of the blast was a garage in the Xuangang Coal and Power Co. Hospital in the small city of Yuanping, the agency said. Buildings within a 1-km (half-mile) radius suffered damage.An official with the Yuanping Health Bureau told Reuters the cause of the explosion was unknown.A resident who lives about 2 km from the blast told Reuters that windows in her neighborhood were broken when the blast shook the city in the early hours of the morning.The Xinhua report said a five-story apartment building close to the explosion suffered "severe damage." It said China's armed militia had been mobilized to help rescue efforts.A fire at a hospital in northeastern Jilin province killed 39 patients last December. (fjr/)