GM Seeks Alternative Supplies in China After Deadly Factory Blast

General Motors said on Sunday that it had asked its main Chinese supplier to find an alternative source of components after an explosion ripped through a factory a day earlier, killing at least 69 people. The accident at the Zhongrong Metal Products Co. Ltd. plant in Kunshan city, about 1,000 kilometers (600 miles) southeast of Beijing, in the eastern province of Jiangsu. It is China's worst industrial accident in a year, since a fire at a poultry plant killed 119 people in June...

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