Turkey steel factory blast kills 6

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An explosion at an iron and steel factory near Izmir, western Turkey, killed six people and injured around a dozen others. Authorities updated the death toll after injured workers and people rescued from the rubble died.

Six people were killed and around a dozen injured on Monday when an explosion ripped through an iron and steel factory near Turkey’s western resort city of Izmir, the governor’s office said. The governor’s office initially gave a toll of three dead, 14 injured and 10 trapped under the rubble, but gave an update saying one of the injured had died along with two of those pulled from the rubble, raising the toll to six. Footage posted from the scene showed a huge cloud of thick smoke pouring into...