BUCHAREST, Romania (AP) - Romanian emergency officials say a woman employed at an arms factory in western Romania has died in a blast at the plant.
An explosion occurred Monday in a tunnel where weapons are tested at the plant in the city of Cugir, followed by a fire. Nineteen people were working a shift in the tunnel when the blast occurred. They all managed to escape apart from a 50-year-old woman who reportedly returned to retrieve her handbag.
Tristan Fogarasi, a spokesman for the Emergency Inspectorate told The Associated Press that officials later found the woman’s body.
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Fogarasi said firefighters extinguished the blaze after two hours.
The state-owned plant manufactures a variety of pistols and other weapons. It employs 1,000 people and opened in 1799.
An investigation into the blast is underway.
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