In Turkey died another victim in the explosion at the plant in Aliaga

The number of victims of the tragic incident at a steel plant in the Turkish region of Izmir has risen to 17 people. The head of the Ministry of Health of the Republic of Turkey Kemal Memisoglu said about the current data in the social network X, explaining that another local resident who was in critical condition died in the hospital.

Up to this point, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said 16 people had died, adding that 13 employees of the enterprise received various injuries and burns, two of them were in an extremely difficult situation.

An emergency at an industrial facility in the city of Aliaga occurred on Monday. The cause of the disaster was the cliff and subsequent fall of the bridge crane directly into the electric arc furnace inside the smelting shop, which provoked an instant spill of hot liquid metal and a powerful explosion.

As a result of the detonation, the production building was almost completely destroyed, and massive pillars of dark smoke rose into the sky and were recorded by eyewitnesses at a distance of many kilometers from the plant.

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