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Explosion kills 1, injures 4 in Spain arms factory
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July 3, 2011, Sunday
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AN explosion in central Spain killed one person and injured four others yesterday at an arms factory used mainly to dismantle cluster bombs, local officials said.
One of the wounded was in serious condition. Two rescue helicopters were deployed to the factory located outside the town of El Gordo in Castilla-La Mancha, 175 km west of Madrid, a regional Interior Ministry spokesman said.
The wounded were flown to nearby hospitals. The roads to the factory were closed off by local Civil Guard officers, Spanish state television reported.
The cause of the explosion was still under investigation, but investigators suspect it took place in an incinerator furnace used to destroy cluster bombs by the Defense Ministry, the report said. ' The origin of the cluster bombs is not known yet.
Spain stopped manufacturing cluster bombs after it joined an international treaty banning the weapons. The ban took effect in August last year.
Cluster bombs are air-dropped or ground-launched explosive weapons that eject many small bomblets over a wide area. Hereby, they pose risks to civilians both during the explosion and afterwards.
One of the wounded was in serious condition. Two rescue helicopters were deployed to the factory located outside the town of El Gordo in Castilla-La Mancha, 175 km west of Madrid, a regional Interior Ministry spokesman said.
The wounded were flown to nearby hospitals. The roads to the factory were closed off by local Civil Guard officers, Spanish state television reported.
The cause of the explosion was still under investigation, but investigators suspect it took place in an incinerator furnace used to destroy cluster bombs by the Defense Ministry, the report said. ' The origin of the cluster bombs is not known yet.
Spain stopped manufacturing cluster bombs after it joined an international treaty banning the weapons. The ban took effect in August last year.
Cluster bombs are air-dropped or ground-launched explosive weapons that eject many small bomblets over a wide area. Hereby, they pose risks to civilians both during the explosion and afterwards.
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