Fire raged through a poultry plant in northeastern China Monday, trapping workers inside a cluttered slaughterhouse and killing at least 119 people, reports and officials said.

An explosion killed six workers on Monday at a coal mine in northeast China where a similar accident killed 28 miners just three days earlier, state news media reported.

The incident occurred at a factory in the southeastern industrial city of Gumi, where a hydrochloric acid leak at another factory last September left more than 3,000 people seeking medical treatmen

Liquid chlorine spill at a chemical plant in Russia's Perm Territory injured 30 people, local authorities told the Interfax news agency Friday.

Carbon monoxide has been blamed for four deaths of workers in a cement plant in northwest China's Gansu Province on Wednesday, local officials said.

A blast occurred at a chemical plant in East China's Shandong province on Saturday, but casualties remain unknown.