Three people have died in Spain, while seven are injured after an explosion at a factory near Alicante.
An explosion at a factory near Alicante, in southeastern Spain, left three people dead and seven injured on Wednesday, emergency services said.
The events took place in an industrial zone of Ibi, around forty kilometers from the center of Alicante, in an expanded polystyrene production factory.
The alert was given shortly before 12:00 p.m. “Three people died and seven were injured” in the “explosion” of a factory, the emergency services of the Valencia region, where Alicante is located, said on X at the start of the afternoon.
Firefighters had previously reported two deaths and two people seriously injured, indicating that one person was also missing.
It was the factory’s boiler that could have exploded, again according to the firefighters. “As a result of this explosion, part of the industrial building collapsed, the roof fell and about half of the building’s surface fell, meaning that some interior walls collapsed as well.“, according to the same source.
Speaking to MPs, Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez expressed “all the support of the Spanish government” to the victims of the accident, as well as to the firefighters and rescue workers working on site.
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