China explosions: Chemical specialists sent to Tianjin.

China has sent a team of military chemical experts to the northern city of Tianjin, after explosions left at least 50 dead, state media report.

The blasts, late on Wednesday night, ripped through an industrial port area, destroying buildings, shipping containers and thousands of new cars. It is not known what caused the blasts, nor whether chemicals have leaked.

   More than 3,500 residents are spending the night in temporary shelters. Hundreds are injured, 71 critically.
   Rescue teams were ordered to wear protective clothing, it added.
  The warehouse that exploded is owned by a company called Ruihai Logistics, which handles toxic chemicals including sodium cyanide and toluene diisocyanate, according to reports.

The People's Daily, the official newspaper of the Chinese Communist Party, reports that rescuers "are trying to remove all the 700 tons of sodium cyanide" stored at the site. Hydrogen peroxide had been prepared to detoxify the chemical, the paper says.

   State news agency Xinhua reports that rescue workers are "racing against the clock to save the injured and contain fires", 24 hours after the massive blasts at a warehouse in the Binhai New Area.

  Many of the wounded had glass or shrapnel cuts, skull injuries or fractures, Wang Siaojie of Teda Hospital said. More than 200 experts in chemical materials from the Chinese army have arrived in Tianjin. Their first task was to test the air for toxic gases, Xinhua said.

The Tianjin Port Group Company said dozens of its employees were unaccounted for, according to Xinhua.

Firefighters were already at the scene when the explosions took place.

They had been called to reports of a container fire, state media said. At least 17 firefighters are among the dead.

The two successive explosions, at 23:30 local time on Wednesday (15:30 GMT), caused a fireball visible from space and a blast wind that broke windows several kilometers away.

A large area of the port was devastated. Shipping containers were left buckled, bent and toppled on top of each other like toy bricks.

Row upon row of new cars were reduced to blackened husks.

Almost 10,000 vehicles were ruined, according to Chinese media, with Renaults and Volkswagens the worst affected.

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-china-33915683

 Vocabularies

1. fractures 骨折

2. sodium 鈉

3. cyanide 氰化物

4. toluene 甲苯

5. diisocyanate 二異氰酸酯

6. peroxide 過氧化

7. detoxify  解毒

8. buckled 扣

9. toppled 扳倒

10. husks  皮

5W1H 

What – A terrible explosion in Tianjin

Who – Residents in Tianjin

When – August12, 2015

Where – Tianjin, China

Why – Some chemical materials cause an explosion.

How -  Helped by rescue teams and chemical experts

Cecil the Lion: US Dentist Walter Palmer Who Killed Zimbabwean Lion Returns to Work amid Protests

The Minnesota dentist who killed Zimbabwean lion Cecil, sparking a global outcry from animal lovers, has returned to work at his suburban Minneapolis office amid chants from protesters of "murderer" and "leave town".

Walter Palmer, 55, did not speak to reporters as he entered his Bloomington,  Minnesota, dental practice.

He shut the practice in late July amid a firestorm of protests after he was publicly identified as the hunter who killed the rare black-maned lion weeks before.

The River Bluff Dental practice reopened in mid-August without Mr Palmer, who said on Sunday in a joint interview with the Minneapolis Star Tribune and the Associated Press that he needed to resume his duties.

In the interview, Mr Palmer reiterated a statement he had made in July: that the hunt was legal and no one in the hunting party realised the targeted trophy kill was the well-known 13-year-old lion.

No charges have been filed against Mr Palmer.

Mr Palmer said in the interview he wounded the lion with a bow and arrow, tracked it and then delivered a final blow with another arrow over the course of far less than the 40 hours that has been widely reported by media.

The killing of Cecil triggered a storm of protests and threats on social media.

Vandals spray-painted "lion killer" at Mr Palmer's Florida vacation home and demonstrators built a small memorial of stuffed animals at the door of his practice and demanded he be charged and extradited.

Veronique Lamb, a 49-year-old tourist from Brussels, was among the protesters waiting for Mr Palmer on Tuesday, and said that she was there to protest the dentist returning to work "like nothing happened".

Cathy Pierce, 63, of East Bethel, Minnesota, said she would like to see Palmer lose his business.

"Maybe that would send a message that this kind of hunting is not accepted anymore," Ms Pierce said.

Zimbabwe said in July it had requested Mr Palmer's extradition as a "foreign poacher", but Mr Palmer would have to be charged in Zimbabwe before he could be extradited.

The US justice department has said it does not comment on extradition requests.

Regulated big-game hunting is permitted in Zimbabwe and a string of other African countries.

Bloomington Police were at Mr Palmer's office on Tuesday and have a security camera in the parking lot, deputy chief Mike Hartley said.

The department hasn't received any reports of threats to Mr Palmer's life, he said.

http://www.abc.net.au/news/2015-09-09/dentist-walter-palmer-who-killed-zimbabwe-lion-cecil-return-work/6760184

Vocabularies
1. outcry  喊叫  
2. joint  聯合    
3. reiterated  重申
4. trophy  獎盃
5. tracked  跟蹤
6. extradited  引渡
7. poacher  偷(盜)獵者
8. chief  首席

5W1H

What – US Dentist Walter Palmer Who Killed Zimbabwean Lion
When – 1^st July 2015
Where – Zimbabwean

Who – US Dentist Walter Palmer
Why – Just for fun and his beloved activity
How – He first wounded Cecil by a bow and arrow, after 40 hours, he killed it.