Flying metal from Spanish factory explosion killed man kilometres away from blast

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Debris from a chemical plant exploding in Spain may have killed a man kilometres away, after crashing through his apartment building.

"I thought that the door at the front of the building had collapsed. I looked out to the window and I saw the flames. I went to the door and left right away," she said.Local authorities said on Twitter that the person killed at the factory site had been located but not identified yet:"There is structural risk in the area and work is being done to stabilise the area and safely reach the victim.

The chemical plant complex was operated by petrochemicals firm Industrias Quimicas del Oxido de Etileno , a producer of ethylene oxide, a highly flammable gas used to make, among other things, ethylene glycol used in computers and vehicles. The chief executive of IQOXE Jose Luis Morlanes said the company had opened an internal investigation into the explosion.

"We deeply regret the loss of one of our co-workers and the suffering of those who are injured," he said. The explosion took place in a part of the complex that had begun operations in June 2017 and had been operating normally, he added, prior to Tuesday's explosion of a 20-tonne tank full of ethylene oxide.

 

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