A fireplace broke out at a battery manufacturing plant in South Korea. 20 individuals died – Meduza

The our bodies of 20 individuals have been discovered on the scene of a fireplace on the Aricell lithium-ion battery plant within the metropolis. Hwaseong in South Korea, Yonhap stories, citing the hearth service.

23 individuals are believed to be lacking on account of the hearth. Firefighters imagine they’ve discovered the our bodies of 20 of them. The useless are believed to incorporate foreigners, together with Chinese language residents.

Because the group says, it was beforehand reported that one other employee was killed and three individuals have been injured on account of the hearth. It isn’t but recognized how many individuals died.

The fireplace broke out on the Aricell plant in Hwaseong round 10:30 native time (04:30 Moscow time). Native tv channels revealed footage of a burning plant, the place explosions could be heard. It’s assumed that the batteries exploded, and there have been at the very least 35 thousand of them on the grounds of the plant. Firefighters barely managed to regulate the hearth by 15:10 native time (09:10 Moscow time) and get to the plant.