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My deepest condolences to those persons that lost loved ones because of this horrible accident.

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Wait for a couple of days for the investigation to conclude and we will see whose heads will roll. It will take at least 6-9 months to repair the street damages and all of the systems.
 

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bd popeye

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Wow! incredible.. this looks more like some Hollywood set or monster movie CGI than real. As if Godzilla or some giant monster just took a stroll down main street.

It is surreal isn't it? The explosion took place at midnight. If it had taken place just a couple or three hours eairler the death toll would have been much higher in my opinion.

One of the things that strikes me is how the general populace is walking around this disaster scene. I know in the US if anything like this would have taken place the authorities would have sealed off the area until it was safe.
 

broadsword

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In Nov 2013, a similar explosion Qingdao Hangdao District killed 52. In developed countries, vehicles with detection devices carry out checks to prevent such disasters.
 

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A performer breathes out fire, for visitors attending a beach carnival, in Beijing, China, Friday, Aug. 1, 2014. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)

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In this handout photo provided by Hellenic Navy, evacuees from China wait to board the Greek frigate Salamis, anchored outside Libya's capital Tripoli , early Friday, Aug. 1, 2014. The ship was used to transport 186 people, including Greek Embassy staff, other Greek nationals and citizens from China, Britain, Belgium, Russia and Albania to a port near Athens. With the violence in Libya escalating to its worst level since the 2011 ouster of dictator Moammar Gadhafi, governments from around the world are scrambling to evacuate their citizens from the country, many seeking help from nearby Greece. (AP Photo/Hellenic Navy)

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A relative, right, of a victim in the multiple explosions from an underground gas leak is consoled at a funeral parlor in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Friday, Aug. 1, 2014. A series of explosions about midnight Thursday and early Friday ripped through Taiwan's second-largest city, killing scores of people, Taiwan's National Fire Agency said Friday. (AP Photo)

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A man wipes his eyes in the rubble from a massive gas explosion in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Friday, Aug. 1, 2014.
 

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A relative, left, of a victim in the multiple explosions from an underground gas leak is consoled at a funeral parlor in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Friday, Aug. 1, 2014.

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Soldiers & Rescue workers use electronic sensors a sniffer dog and other methods to look for missing persons believed to be buried as firetrucks lie damaged after massive gas explosions in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Friday, Aug. 1, 2014.

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A rooftop views show a destroyed street from a massive gas explosion in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Friday, Aug. 1, 2014.

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Unbelievable how the local citizens are just strolling through the explosion area.
Locals survey the damage from massive gas explosions in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Friday, Aug. 1, 2014.

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Emergency workers survey the damage from a massive gas explosion in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Friday, Aug. 1, 2014

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A row of destroyed cars line a sewer trench from a massive gas explosion in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, Friday, Aug. 1, 2014
 

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(Reuters) - Four people, two of them juveniles, have been arrested in the robbery and beating death last week of a Chinese graduate student near his off-campus apartment, Los Angeles Police officials said on Monday.

The body of Xinran Ji, 24, an electrical engineering student who enrolled at the University of Southern California in 2013, was discovered on Thursday morning at his apartment, a few blocks away from where police said he had been attacked some six hours earlier.

Jonathan DelCarmen, 19, and Andrew Garcia, 18, along with a 17-year-old male and 16-year-old female, have been arrested on murder charges in Ji's death, Los Angeles Police Commander Andrew Smith said.

"I don't know why a group of young people would go on a crime spree as terrible as this, as horrible as this, and do these kinds of unspeakable things to someone who's just walking home at night," Smith said.

Special circumstances could make the defendants subject to the death penalty, Smith said. The four suspects are also accused of taking part in a separate robbery later that morning.

Ji was walking to his home near the campus around 12.45 a.m. when five people beat him in what Smith said might have been an attempted robbery. Ji eventually arrived home, where he died of his wounds in the early morning hours.

Police believe the suspects drove to Dockweiler Beach and took part in another robbery.

A fifth suspect, a 14-year-old girl, was also arrested in connection with the second robbery, Smith said. Police are investigating whether she was involved in the killing.

Police said USC’s security measures helped officers to make swift arrests.

Security was tightened following the murders of two USC graduate engineering students from China in the spring of 2012, shot to death as they sat in a parked car near the campus in what police said was a robbery attempt gone wrong.

Two men were arrested and charged with the double slaying, a crime that stunned the prestigious private university. One suspect pleaded guilty to two counts of murder earlier this year and was sentenced to life in prison. His co-defendant is still awaiting trial.

USC’s Viterbi School of Engineering will host a memorial for Ji later in the week.

(Writing by Dan Whitcomb,; Editing by Eric Walsh, Curtis Skinner and Ron Popeski)

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The family of Xinran Ji, a University of Southern California graduate student from China, arrives for his memorial service on the school's campus in Los Angeles on Friday, Aug. 1, 2014.

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Yannis Yortsos, Dean of the USC Viterbi School of Engineering, bows to the famliy of slain graduate student Xinran Ji during his memorial service at the University of Southern California campus in Los Angeles on Friday, Aug. 1, 2014. Authorities said robbers fatally beat the 24-year old with a baseball bat on July 24 as he walked to his apartment near campus. Four teenagers are charged with murder. Despite his injury, Ji managed to make it home to his apartment, where, police said, a roommate found his body later in the morning. (AP Photo/Los Angeles Times, Robert Gauthier, Pool)

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Elizabeth Garrett, University of Southern California provost and senior vice president for academic affairs president, bows to the family of Xinran Ji, a USC graduate student from China, during his memorial service on the school's campus in Los Angeles on Friday, Aug. 1, 2014.

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Xu Yua, president of the Chinese Students and Scholars Association, bows to a photo of Xinran Ji before speaking at his memorial service at the University of Southern California campus in Los Angeles on Friday, Aug. 1, 2014.

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Mourners bring flowers to the memorial ceremony honoring University of Southern California graduate student Xinran Ji in Los Angeles on Friday, Aug. 1, 2014.

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Songbo Ji, left, and his wife, Jinhui Du, parents of slain graduate student Xinran Ji, bow to those attending his memorial service at the University of Southern California campus in Los Angeles on Friday, Aug. 1, 2014.

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A mourner cries during a memorial service for slain Chinese student Xinran Ji at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles on Friday, Aug. 1, 2014.

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Mourners attend a memorial service for slain Chinese student Xinran Ji at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles on Friday, Aug. 1, 2014.
 

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This is not good for USC reputation and ability to attract new overseas grad students.

Perhaps. It would give students and family members second thoughts about sending their children to USC.

This is not the first time this has occurred...remember that in 2012 two Chinese USC students were murdered.

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