Benxi

The official Xinhua News Agency said two workers remained missing Wednesday after explosives that were being transported to a mine blew up near the entrance Tuesday afternoon in Benxi, a city in Liaoning province.

Company documents in Hong Kong listed its sole shareholder as Sun Wei, a resident of Benxi, an area near the Chinese city of Shenyang in Liaoning Province.

Its chimneys, smelters and stockyards stretch nearly a mile along the banks of the Taizi river flowing through Benxi.

Ms. Ma and her mother-in-law Ding Ailian, who respectively own 80% and 20% of Hongxiang Industrial, had their stakes in the company frozen for six months by the Benxi public-security department bureau, corporate records show.

Several calls to provincial police and their municipal counterparts in Dandong weren’t answered, while a public-security official in the nearby city of Benxi, where some of the asset-freeze orders were issued, declined to comment.