2023-09-24 08:58:02
TAIPEI, Taiwan (AP) — Search teams found two more bodies Sunday at a burned-out golf ball factory in southern Taiwan, raising the death toll to nine, according to Taiwanese media. One person was still missing.
Four of the victims were firefighters. An explosion at around 6:10 p.m. on Friday caused part of the building to collapse, trapping firefighters and workers under the rubble, Taiwan’s Central News Agency said, citing a Pingtung county fire official. Twenty minutes later a second explosion occurred.
The fire at the Launch Technologies Co. plant in the Pingtung Industrial Technology Park was not extinguished until the next day. The cause remained unclear.
About 100 people were injured. Taiwanese President Tsai Ing-wen traveled to Pingtung County on Saturday and met with victims and their families, Taiwanese television station TVBS reported.
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