A powerful explosion at a hospital complex in northern China's Shanxi province on Monday killed at least 19 people with up to a dozen more missing, state media and local police reported.
The incident happened at Yuanping city's Xuangang Coal Power Company's staff hospital around 2:25 am (1825 GMT Sunday), with 19 bodies found by Monday afternoon and two people seriously injured, the Xinhua news agency said.
The explosion occurred in a garage at the hospital and damaged buildings within one square kilometre (0.4 square miles), Xinhua and a local policeman said, without giving a reason for the blast.
A doctor at the hospital, who declined to give his name, said a two-storey building which housed the garage and a small residential quarters was "completely flattened".
One end of a five-storey residential building for hospital staff was also completely destroyed, he said. The cause of the blast was still under investigation, state media said.