Twelve Dead, Dozens Injured in Fire at Indonesian Steel Plant

Twelve people died in a fire at a nickel processing facility at Indonesia Morwali Industrial Park early Sunday morning. Nearly 40 people were injured.

The fire started at 5:30 a.m. with an explosion during furnace maintenance at a plant owned by PT Indonesia Tsingshan Stainless Steel, one of 52 tenants at industrial site that covers 3,000 hectares on the eastern side of Sulawesi. It was extinguished a little after 9 a.m., according to an official statement from IMIP.