One person killed after explosion at Tsinghua University laboratory in Beijing

One person was killed in an explosion at a laboratory at the prestigious Tsinghua University in northwest Beijing on Friday morning, state media reported.

The fire has been put out and the cause of the explosion is under investigation, according to a short dispatch on China Central Television’s microblog, quoting Beijing’s fire department.

A fire broke out in a chemistry laboratory on first floor of the He Tian building at the university, China Radio International reported on its website.

It said the person killed was working inside the laboratory and that the building had been evacuated.

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Photographs and a video posted on state television’s microblog show fire inside a room and a large amount of black smoke spewing out of its window.