TURKEY: Ten killed in two suspected gas explosions occurring hours apart in Turkey's capital

Record ID: 359274

  • Title: TURKEY: Ten killed in two suspected gas explosions occurring hours apart in Turkey's capital
  • Date: 4th February 2011
  • Summary: ANKARA, TURKEY (FEBRUARY 3, 2011) (REUTERS) ( NIGHT SCENES) VARIOUS OF BLAST SCENE FIREFIGHTERS AT SCENE VARIOUS OF FIRE VARIOUS OF DESTROYED CARS VARIOUS OF FIREFIGHTERS AT SCENE VARIOUS OF BLAST SCENE FIVE DEAD COVERED BODIES NEXT TO CIVIL DEFENCE WORKERS AMBULANCES AT SCENE FIRE TRUCKS AT SCENE VARIOUS OF BLAST SCENE
  • Embargoed: 19th February 2011 12:00
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  • Location: Turkey, Turkey
  • Country: Turkey
  • Topics: Disasters / Accidents / Natural catastrophes
  • Reuters ID: LVA9N0OJBVS4ATS1WECPV8H0OIUA
  • Story Text: Two suspected gas explosions occurring several hours apart killed 10 people and wounded dozens more in an industrial zone in Turkey's capital Ankara on Thursday, local officials said.
    Four people were dead and eight people were hurt in a paint-production plant in Ankara after a second blast hit the area around 7:45 p.m. (1745 GMT), Governor Alaaddin Yuksel told reporters in comments that were broadcast live by NTV channel.
    Some 15 others were still trapped in the building as toxic chemicals and fire made it difficult for rescue workers to enter the premises, Yuksel said.
    Television images showed firefighters battling flames as black smoke poured out of a building.
    Yuksel also said the plant lacked a proper licence for paint production.
    In a separate explosion at 11 a.m., six people were killed and 27 people were hurt in the same industrial district.
    Two floors of a factory making generators collapsed when a blast thought to be caused by a build-up of gas ripped through the plant, local mayor Fethi Yasar told television stations.
    Turkey has the second-highest workplace mortality rate in the world, according to the Confederation of Progressive Trade Unions
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