Boss who was sacked over blast jailed

China’s

former top worksafety official has been jailed for 15 years for graft, a year and a half after he was sacked over a giant industrial explosion that killed 165 people.

Yang Dongliang, now 63, was head of the State Administration of Work Safety in August 2015 when a series of mammoth blasts at a dangerous chemicals storage facility rocked the northern port of Tianjin. A court in Beijing announced Yang’s sentence in a statement, saying from 2002 to 2015 he took bribes totalling 28.5 million yuan (Dh15.2 million). (AFP)