BEIJING (dpa-AFX) - Death toll rose to 85 as of Friday night, including 21 firemen, from the massive warehouse explosions hitting north China's Tianjin City Wednesday night, the official Xinhua News Agency reported citing the rescue headquarters.
Meanwhile, 721 others were hospitalized, including 25 critically wounded and 33 in serious condition.
The report said residents in a relocation site of the blasts have been evacuated in fear of chemical pollutants in the air.
People who were relocated at the second primary school of Tianjin Development Zone were transferred on Saturday morning, after receiving an alert of wind change.
Specialized anti-chemical warfare soldiers also entered the core area of blasts site on Saturday morning to search for possible lives.
The report indicated that Specialists investigating in the massive explosions in Tianjin believed the existence of sodium cyanide, a highly toxic inorganic compound, is 'possible'.
Gao Huaiyou, vice head of the Tianjin administrative bureau of work safety, reportedly said that the dangerous chemicals stored in the warehouse possibly include sodium cyanide.
But he said further confirmation is still needed, because the containers were not open, and some even not registered. He was not sure how much sodium cyanide, if any, was in storage at the time of blasts.
Some local media reported earlier that Rui Hai Logistics, owner of the warehouse which is licensed to store dangerous chemicals, had as much as 700 tonnes of sodium cyanide, but Gao said it was not yet verifiable.
Some other dangerous chemicals likely to be stored included potassium nitrate, ammonium nitrate.
The warehouse was owned by Tianjin Dongjiang Port Rui Hai International Logistics Co. Ltd., which was founded in 2011 and is a storage and distribution center of containers of dangerous goods at the Tianjin Port.
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