Twenty-one people have died and 61 have been injured, according to Xinhua News Agency's latest update at 8 am on Tuesday on the explosion that occurred at a fireworks plant in Liuyang, Central China's Hunan Province around 4:40 pm on Monday. After the explosion, Hunan Province immediately activated its emergency response plan, urgently dispatching five rescue teams totaling 482 personnel to the site for emergency operations and full-scale search and rescue efforts, per Xinhua.