Seventeen employees of Jiangsu Tianjiayi Chemical Co. and related agencies have been put under criminal coercive measures for their roles in the recent chemical plant blast in east China's Jiangsu Province, local authorities said Monday.
So far a total of 26 people have been put under criminal coercive measures, which may include summons by force, bail, residential surveillance, detention or arrest.
The explosion happened at about 2:48 p.m. on March 21 following a fire that broke out in a chemical industrial park in Xiangshui County. 78 people were killed in the blast.
