State Council to supervise probe into factory explosion in north China's Inner Mongolia

BEIJING, Jan. 19 (Xinhua) -- The Work Safety Commission under the State Council has decided to oversee the investigation into an explosion at a factory in north China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, according to the Ministry of Emergency Management.

The blast occurred at around 3 p.m. on Sunday at a plate plant operated by Baogang United Steel in the west of the city of Baotou. As of 6 a.m. on Monday, the ex