explosion at an illegal fireworks workshop ...Yongxing, central China's

Chinese firefighters remove a charred body of a victim in an explosion at an illegal fireworks workshop in Yongxing, central China's Hunan province 28 November 2007. As of 2006, China had about 7,000 fireworks factories and 140,000 distributors, with about 1.5 million people working in the industry, and on average, there are 445 deaths in 406 fireworks accidents every year around China.