The blast sparked a
fire, engulfing an area of 100 square meters.
MOSCOW, August 31.
/TASS/. An explosion has hit the Sverdlov defense plant in Russia’s Nizhny
Novgorod region, killing three and leaving another three missing, a regional
law enforcement source told TASS.
"According to
preliminary reports, the explosion killed three and left another two injured.
Besides, three people are missing," the source said.
He added that some
ammonal explosive had gone off in one of the plant’s workshops. "A
technological process disruption is believed to have caused the
explosion," the source said, adding that "a fire broke out after the
blast, engulfing an area of 100 square meters." Firefighters are working
at the scene.
"The blaze has
been categorized as a three-alarm fire," the source said.
The Sverdlov plant is
the biggest producer of industrial explosives, detonators and booster leads for
the mining industry.
Source: ITAR-TASS
31-08-2018
