Minhang district prosecutors have accused a perfume purveyor of accidently causing an explosion that killed two people in Shanghai last September, local media reported Tuesday.

The Shanghai Minhang District People's Prosecutor's Office charged the man, surnamed Wang, with causing an accident with a dangerous substance, according to a report in the Laodong Daily.

It remains unclear where the explosion occurred in the city. According to the report, Wang typically sent his perfume mixtures from a warehouse in Zhejiang Province to a bottling plant in Minhang district. He usually shipped the mixtures, some of which were more than 70 percent alcohol, in plastic buckets that lacked any warning that they contained flammable substances.

On September 1, he shipped 27 plastic buckets containing 450 kilograms of perfume mixtures to the plant. Three days later, a worker found a leak in one of the buckets and tried to seal it by melting the plastic with a lighter. The flame caused the bucket to explode, killing two workers and injuring three others, the report said.

The prosecutor's office decided to charge Wang because the buckets did not display warnings that the contents were dangerous, the report said.

Global Times