At least 19 dead as explosion rocks military-run fireworks factory in northern Vietnam

HANOI, Vietnam - An explosion Saturday at a military-run fireworks factory in northern Vietnam killed at least 19 workers and injured dozens of others, officials and state media said. Tran Minh Khanh, deputy director of the provincial health department, said the morning explosion injured more than 90 workers, many of them seriously. The bodies of 19 workers were pulled from the wreckage, state media said. Maj. Gen. Le Quang Dai, the military chief in Phu Tho province, said the search and rescue operation was ongoing to try to find survivors. Several sections of the multi-building factory were leveled in the explosion, and some nearby homes were also damaged, Dai said.

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