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plant explosion kills 2, injures 5
Turkey --
 Two
people died and five were wounded in an explosion that
occurred on Thursday at a milk processing plant in
Turkey's capital, Ankara.
The blast occurred at a milk processing plant in an
industrial complex in Cubuk, 40 kilometers (25 miles)
northeast of the capital.
The explosion
ripped through a compound where a steam boiler was
operating, police told Anatolia.
It was not
immediately known what caused the blast in the factory
in an industrial complex in Cubuk, 40 kilometers
north-east of the capital.
The district
administrator of Cubuk, Meftun Dalli, told the Anatolian
Agency on Thursday that two workers had been killed
and five injured when a steam boiler at a milk
processing plant exploded in the town.
Television images showed a collapsed corrugated metal
roof and broken glass windows. An investigation into the
cause of the blast at the factory had begun, said Dalli.
There are frequent
industrial accidents in Turkey, often blamed on lax
safety regulations.
Twenty-one people
were killed in January in a huge explosion at an
unlicenced fireworks factory in Istanbul.
 Man
Killed In Plant Explosion
USA -- One man is dead after a powerful explosion around
noon on Sunday at the bio-diesel plant in Princess Anne.
"I hear this blast and I run back there, it like blew me
right off my deck," said Samuel Cottman, who lives only
about 100 feet from the plant. "I run back there and I
seen all this smoke and dust flying. And I got back
there and a guy was running around in the yard saying,
'Oh my buddy is dead, my buddy is dead.'"
Police say two workers, believed to be from Michigan,
were working on a methane line inside the plant when the
explosion occurred. One worker was killed. The other was
said to be alert and conscious prior to being taken to
PRMC, but his condition is not known. Police say there
was no spill or leak and that surrounding residents are
safe. Princess Anne Police Chief Scott Keller said, "It
did bow the walls of the building out and bubble the
roof up so it was quite a powerful explosion. But
there's no environmental concerns at all at this time."
Cottman and many of his neighbors say spills, leaks, and
explosions aren't things they should ever have to worry
about. "They had no business putting that plant there in
the first place. It's too close to the neighborhood."
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