GUIYANG - Four people were confirmed dead and at least 100 others were injured in an explosion in southwest China's Guizhou Province Tuesday, local authorities said.
周二中国西南部贵州省发生爆炸，已确认4人死亡，至少其余100人受伤。
The blast happened at around 11:30 am in Machangping township of Fuquan City, at least 100 km from the provincial capital Guiyang, said a spokesman with the publicity department of the Fuquan city committee of the Communist Party of China.
中国共党委员会福泉市宣称部发言人表示，爆炸约上午11：30发生在离省会贵阳约100KM远的福泉市马场坪镇.
He said the exact location of the explosion was near a ramp on an interprovincial expressway that links Lanzhou in the northwestern Gansu Province with the southernmost island province of Hainan.
他说具体的爆炸地点发生在靠近连接甘肃西北部兰州市和位于中国最南边的岛屿—海南省的省际高速公路的一个斜坡上。
The explosion toppled several homes nearby, the spokesman said.
附近部分居民房屋被震垮，发言人说。
He said the exact cause of the explosion remained unclear.
他表示具体的爆炸原因还不得而知。
