Death toll in Tianjin explosions climbs to over 100; crews search for missing

Tianjin, China (CNN)Crews searched for an unknown number of civilians and soldiers Saturday who are believed trapped by multiple explosions that killed at least 104 people this week in this eastern Chinese city.
As of Saturday evening, more than 40 people have been rescued in Tianjin, including a 19-year-old firefighter who lay on the ground for hours with burns and a cracked skull until he was found, officials said.
Relatives of those still missing stormed an official press conference demanding to know the whereabouts of their loved ones. Families wrote the names of missing persons on posters lining a street outside a temporary shelter near the rescue site.
Earlier Saturday, fires sent plumes of black smoke skyward near where explosions devastated a chemical warehouse in Tianjin on Wednesday.
But officials denied news reports that an evacuation order had been immediately issued for everyone within 1.8 miles (3 kilometers), with Tianjin government spokesman Gong Jiansheng calling the reports "false information."
The Beijing News, citing the People's Armed Police Force, had reported the evacuation order. CNN has reported that at least one disaster recovery shelter is located within the reported evacuation zone.
    However, photographs made it appear that vehicles in a parking lot had caught fire rather than new explosions having taken place at the warehouse, as the Xinhua news agency had reported.

    'Lessons paid for with blood'

    Chinese President Xi Jinping said Saturday that the Tianjin blasts and other recent accidents exposed severe problems in workplace safety and urged authorities to heed "safe growth" and "people's interest first" in efforts to avoid such accidents, Xinhua reported.
    The president also "urged authorities to learn from the 'extremely profound' lessons paid for with blood" in the Tianjin explosions, Xinhua reported.
    Xi is demanding improvements to workplace safety, the agency added.
    The first blasts on Wednesday, one of which carried the equivalent of more than 20 tons of TNT, left more than 700 people injured and thousands homeless, officials said. A man around the age of 40 was reported to have been rescued from the site on Saturday.
    A Chinese police officer carries a man as civilians flee the area near the disaster.
    24 photos: Multiple explosions hit Chinese port city
    A Chinese police officer carries a man as civilians flee the area near the disaster.
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    Fire and smoke is seen from a broken window of an apartment.
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    Fire and smoke is seen from a broken window of an apartment.
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    People walk among the crumpled remains of shipping containers. One of the explosions was estimated to be equivalent to 21 tons of TNT, or a magnitude-2.9 earthquake, according to the China Earthquake Networks Center.
    24 photos: Multiple explosions hit Chinese port city
    People walk among the crumpled remains of shipping containers. One of the explosions was estimated to be equivalent to 21 tons of TNT, or a magnitude-2.9 earthquake, according to the China Earthquake Networks Center.
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    Chinese President Xi Jinping and Premier Li Keqiang called for "all-out efforts" to save the injured and minimize casualties, the state-run Xinhua news outlet reported.
    24 photos: Multiple explosions hit Chinese port city
    Chinese President Xi Jinping and Premier Li Keqiang called for "all-out efforts" to save the injured and minimize casualties, the state-run Xinhua news outlet reported.
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    Over 1,000 firefighters were called in to put out secondary fires caused by the explosions.
    24 photos: Multiple explosions hit Chinese port city
    Over 1,000 firefighters were called in to put out secondary fires caused by the explosions.
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    People sleep in a classroom at a primary school used as a makeshift emergency evacuation center.
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    People sleep in a classroom at a primary school used as a makeshift emergency evacuation center.
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    A bandaged man eats in a hospital in Tianjin.
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    A bandaged man eats in a hospital in Tianjin.
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    A firefighter grimaces as he is examined for injuries. Seventeen firefighters were among the people killed, officials said.
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    A firefighter grimaces as he is examined for injuries. Seventeen firefighters were among the people killed, officials said.
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    An injured survivor is brought to a hospital following the explosion.
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    An injured survivor is brought to a hospital following the explosion.
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    Fires continued to burn near the site of the explosions in the early hours of Thursday, August 13.
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    Fires continued to burn near the site of the explosions in the early hours of Thursday, August 13.
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    A photographer captures the plume of the second, and most massive, of the series of explosions.
    24 photos: Multiple explosions hit Chinese port city
    A photographer captures the plume of the second, and most massive, of the series of explosions.
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    The initial explosion erupts Wednesday night, August 12 at a warehouse owned by Rui Hai International Logistics Co. Executives of the company were taken into custody, state media reported on August 13.
    24 photos: Multiple explosions hit Chinese port city
    The initial explosion erupts Wednesday night, August 12 at a warehouse owned by Rui Hai International Logistics Co. Executives of the company were taken into custody, state media reported on August 13.
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    Smoke rises as damaged cars explode on Saturday, August 15, two days after a series of explosions at a chemical warehouse in Tianjin, China, left dozens of people dead and hundreds injured. Fire officials say hazardous chemicals stored at the warehouse were ignited by fire, but were still investigating the fire's cause.
    24 photos: Multiple explosions hit Chinese port city
    Smoke rises as damaged cars explode on Saturday, August 15, two days after a series of explosions at a chemical warehouse in Tianjin, China, left dozens of people dead and hundreds injured. Fire officials say hazardous chemicals stored at the warehouse were ignited by fire, but were still investigating the fire's cause.
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    Firefighters work August 15 at the site of the explosions.
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    Firefighters work August 15 at the site of the explosions.
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    Soldiers from the National Nuclear Biochemical Emergency Rescue Team launch a rescue mission August 15 at the core area of the explosion site.
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    Soldiers from the National Nuclear Biochemical Emergency Rescue Team launch a rescue mission August 15 at the core area of the explosion site.
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    Smoke rises from debris on August 15 near a crater at the center of where the explosions took place.
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    Smoke rises from debris on August 15 near a crater at the center of where the explosions took place.
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    Scattered debris is seen August 15 at the site of the explosions.
    24 photos: Multiple explosions hit Chinese port city
    Scattered debris is seen August 15 at the site of the explosions.
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    Volkswagens lie burned near ruined buildings on Friday, August 14.
    24 photos: Multiple explosions hit Chinese port city
    Volkswagens lie burned near ruined buildings on Friday, August 14.
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    An aerial image taken shows toxic smoke rising from debris in Tianjin, a sprawling port city of more than 13 million people about 70 miles from Beijing.
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    An aerial image taken shows toxic smoke rising from debris in Tianjin, a sprawling port city of more than 13 million people about 70 miles from Beijing.
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    Firefighters wear protective gear while working as partially pink smoke billows nearby. The environmental group Greenpeace expressed concern "that certain chemicals will continue to pose a risk to the residents of Tianjin," and city residents shared similar fears on social media.
    24 photos: Multiple explosions hit Chinese port city
    Firefighters wear protective gear while working as partially pink smoke billows nearby. The environmental group Greenpeace expressed concern "that certain chemicals will continue to pose a risk to the residents of Tianjin," and city residents shared similar fears on social media.
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    Rescuers are seen near the site of the blasts. A Chinese military team of nuclear and chemical were conducting investigations as pressure grew on authorities to explain the cause of the fire and the resulting cataclysmic explosions.
    24 photos: Multiple explosions hit Chinese port city
    Rescuers are seen near the site of the blasts. A Chinese military team of nuclear and chemical were conducting investigations as pressure grew on authorities to explain the cause of the fire and the resulting cataclysmic explosions.
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    Smoke from the explosion billows over destroyed cars. As of 2014, Tianjin was the world's 10th-busiest container port, <a href="http://www.worldshipping.org/about-the-industry/global-trade/top-50-world-container-ports" target="_blank">according to the World Shipping Council</a>.
    24 photos: Multiple explosions hit Chinese port city
    Smoke from the explosion billows over destroyed cars. As of 2014, Tianjin was the world's 10th-busiest container port, according to the World Shipping Council.
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    Residents take their belongings as they evacuate from parts of the city. Managers of the warehouse facility have provided "insufficient information" about what was stored there, a city safety official said, though it is known that sodium cyanide, a highly toxic chemical that can rapidly kill humans exposed to it, was one of the stored materials. <br />
    24 photos: Multiple explosions hit Chinese port city
    Residents take their belongings as they evacuate from parts of the city. Managers of the warehouse facility have provided "insufficient information" about what was stored there, a city safety official said, though it is known that sodium cyanide, a highly toxic chemical that can rapidly kill humans exposed to it, was one of the stored materials. 
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    Three men walk out onto the streets after being treated at a hospital on Thursday, August 13.
    24 photos: Multiple explosions hit Chinese port city
    Three men walk out onto the streets after being treated at a hospital on Thursday, August 13.
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    A Chinese police officer carries a man as civilians flee the area near the disaster.
    24 photos: Multiple explosions hit Chinese port city
    A Chinese police officer carries a man as civilians flee the area near the disaster.
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    Fire and smoke is seen from a broken window of an apartment.
    24 photos: Multiple explosions hit Chinese port city
    Fire and smoke is seen from a broken window of an apartment.
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    People walk among the crumpled remains of shipping containers. One of the explosions was estimated to be equivalent to 21 tons of TNT, or a magnitude-2.9 earthquake, according to the China Earthquake Networks Center.
    24 photos: Multiple explosions hit Chinese port city
    People walk among the crumpled remains of shipping containers. One of the explosions was estimated to be equivalent to 21 tons of TNT, or a magnitude-2.9 earthquake, according to the China Earthquake Networks Center.
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    Chinese President Xi Jinping and Premier Li Keqiang called for "all-out efforts" to save the injured and minimize casualties, the state-run Xinhua news outlet reported.
    24 photos: Multiple explosions hit Chinese port city
    Chinese President Xi Jinping and Premier Li Keqiang called for "all-out efforts" to save the injured and minimize casualties, the state-run Xinhua news outlet reported.
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    Over 1,000 firefighters were called in to put out secondary fires caused by the explosions.
    24 photos: Multiple explosions hit Chinese port city
    Over 1,000 firefighters were called in to put out secondary fires caused by the explosions.
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    People sleep in a classroom at a primary school used as a makeshift emergency evacuation center.
    24 photos: Multiple explosions hit Chinese port city
    People sleep in a classroom at a primary school used as a makeshift emergency evacuation center.
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    A bandaged man eats in a hospital in Tianjin.
    24 photos: Multiple explosions hit Chinese port city
    A bandaged man eats in a hospital in Tianjin.
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    A firefighter grimaces as he is examined for injuries. Seventeen firefighters were among the people killed, officials said.
    24 photos: Multiple explosions hit Chinese port city
    A firefighter grimaces as he is examined for injuries. Seventeen firefighters were among the people killed, officials said.
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    An injured survivor is brought to a hospital following the explosion.
    24 photos: Multiple explosions hit Chinese port city
    An injured survivor is brought to a hospital following the explosion.
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    Fires continued to burn near the site of the explosions in the early hours of Thursday, August 13.
    24 photos: Multiple explosions hit Chinese port city
    Fires continued to burn near the site of the explosions in the early hours of Thursday, August 13.
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    A photographer captures the plume of the second, and most massive, of the series of explosions.
    24 photos: Multiple explosions hit Chinese port city
    A photographer captures the plume of the second, and most massive, of the series of explosions.
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    The initial explosion erupts Wednesday night, August 12 at a warehouse owned by Rui Hai International Logistics Co. Executives of the company were taken into custody, state media reported on August 13.
    24 photos: Multiple explosions hit Chinese port city
    The initial explosion erupts Wednesday night, August 12 at a warehouse owned by Rui Hai International Logistics Co. Executives of the company were taken into custody, state media reported on August 13.
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    Smoke rises as damaged cars explode on Saturday, August 15, two days after a series of explosions at a chemical warehouse in Tianjin, China, left dozens of people dead and hundreds injured. Fire officials say hazardous chemicals stored at the warehouse were ignited by fire, but were still investigating the fire's cause.
    24 photos: Multiple explosions hit Chinese port city
    Smoke rises as damaged cars explode on Saturday, August 15, two days after a series of explosions at a chemical warehouse in Tianjin, China, left dozens of people dead and hundreds injured. Fire officials say hazardous chemicals stored at the warehouse were ignited by fire, but were still investigating the fire's cause.
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    Firefighters work August 15 at the site of the explosions.
    24 photos: Multiple explosions hit Chinese port city
    Firefighters work August 15 at the site of the explosions.
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    Soldiers from the National Nuclear Biochemical Emergency Rescue Team launch a rescue mission August 15 at the core area of the explosion site.
    24 photos: Multiple explosions hit Chinese port city
    Soldiers from the National Nuclear Biochemical Emergency Rescue Team launch a rescue mission August 15 at the core area of the explosion site.
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    Smoke rises from debris on August 15 near a crater at the center of where the explosions took place.
    24 photos: Multiple explosions hit Chinese port city
    Smoke rises from debris on August 15 near a crater at the center of where the explosions took place.
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    Scattered debris is seen August 15 at the site of the explosions.
    24 photos: Multiple explosions hit Chinese port city
    Scattered debris is seen August 15 at the site of the explosions.
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    Volkswagens lie burned near ruined buildings on Friday, August 14.
    24 photos: Multiple explosions hit Chinese port city
    Volkswagens lie burned near ruined buildings on Friday, August 14.
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    An aerial image taken shows toxic smoke rising from debris in Tianjin, a sprawling port city of more than 13 million people about 70 miles from Beijing.
    24 photos: Multiple explosions hit Chinese port city
    An aerial image taken shows toxic smoke rising from debris in Tianjin, a sprawling port city of more than 13 million people about 70 miles from Beijing.
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    Firefighters wear protective gear while working as partially pink smoke billows nearby. The environmental group Greenpeace expressed concern "that certain chemicals will continue to pose a risk to the residents of Tianjin," and city residents shared similar fears on social media.
    24 photos: Multiple explosions hit Chinese port city
    Firefighters wear protective gear while working as partially pink smoke billows nearby. The environmental group Greenpeace expressed concern "that certain chemicals will continue to pose a risk to the residents of Tianjin," and city residents shared similar fears on social media.
    Hide Caption
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    Rescuers are seen near the site of the blasts. A Chinese military team of nuclear and chemical were conducting investigations as pressure grew on authorities to explain the cause of the fire and the resulting cataclysmic explosions.
    24 photos: Multiple explosions hit Chinese port city
    Rescuers are seen near the site of the blasts. A Chinese military team of nuclear and chemical were conducting investigations as pressure grew on authorities to explain the cause of the fire and the resulting cataclysmic explosions.
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    Smoke from the explosion billows over destroyed cars. As of 2014, Tianjin was the world's 10th-busiest container port, <a href="http://www.worldshipping.org/about-the-industry/global-trade/top-50-world-container-ports" target="_blank">according to the World Shipping Council</a>.
    24 photos: Multiple explosions hit Chinese port city
    Smoke from the explosion billows over destroyed cars. As of 2014, Tianjin was the world's 10th-busiest container port, according to the World Shipping Council.
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    Residents take their belongings as they evacuate from parts of the city. Managers of the warehouse facility have provided "insufficient information" about what was stored there, a city safety official said, though it is known that sodium cyanide, a highly toxic chemical that can rapidly kill humans exposed to it, was one of the stored materials. <br />
    24 photos: Multiple explosions hit Chinese port city
    Residents take their belongings as they evacuate from parts of the city. Managers of the warehouse facility have provided "insufficient information" about what was stored there, a city safety official said, though it is known that sodium cyanide, a highly toxic chemical that can rapidly kill humans exposed to it, was one of the stored materials. 
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    Three men walk out onto the streets after being treated at a hospital on Thursday, August 13.
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    Three men walk out onto the streets after being treated at a hospital on Thursday, August 13.
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