How an Expectant Mother Died in Qingdao

Efforts to Save Her Were Met With Indifference and Frustration

One of the fifty-five people to die in an explosion on November 22 at a pipeline owned by China Petroleum & Chemical Corp. (Sinopec) in the eastern city of Qingdao was a twenty-three-year-old pregnant woman named Chen Na.

Her husband, who declined to give his full name, told Caixin how he frantically tried to help his wife in her final hours.