The oil spilled into the sea in north-east China after two pipelines exploded on Friday night, resulting in a fierce fire.

BBC: China oil spill after pipe blast 'worse than thought'

Now he was being told that the dead soldier was Private First Class Jay Cajimat, who was twenty years and two months old and who might have died immediately from the blast of the explosion, or a little more slowly in the resulting fire.

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More than a dozen people were injured in the blast and resulting fire, which occurred just after 6 p.m. and completely destroyed JJ's restaurant.

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Scientists think the web became trapped in conifer resin after a forest fire and then became fossilised inside the resulting amber.

BBC: Scientists study the spider silk