{"id":146388,"date":"2026-02-18T12:15:02","date_gmt":"2026-02-18T12:15:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=146388"},"modified":"2026-02-18T12:15:02","modified_gmt":"2026-02-18T12:15:02","slug":"12-killed-in-chinas-second-deadly-lunar-new-year-firework-explosion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=146388","title":{"rendered":"12 killed in China\u2019s second deadly Lunar New Year firework explosion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostTwelve people were killed in an explosion at a firework shop in Hubei in central China on Wednesday, just days after eight people died in a similar incident in a nearby province.<br \/>\nThe accident happened just before 2.30pm on the second day of Lunar New Year in Zhengji in Xiangyang city, state news agency Xinhua reported.<br \/>\nThe report added that the subsequent fire spread across the premises and was put out within an hour. An investigation into the cause is now under way.<br \/>\nThe explosion followed&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/news\/china\/politics\/article\/3343931\/12-killed-chinas-second-deadly-lunar-new-year-firework-explosion?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: China &#8211; South China Morning PostTwelve people were killed in an explosion at a firework shop in Hubei in central China on Wednesday, just days after eight people died&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146388"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=146388"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/146388\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=146388"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=146388"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=146388"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}