Saudi factory fire kills 12
Riyadh: A fire at a petrochemicals plant in the eastern Saudi city of Jubail killed 12 workers on Saturday, the official SPA news agency reported.
The fire broke out during maintenance work, a spokesman for the Jubail and Yanbu industrial zone, Abdel Rahman al-Abdel Khader, told the agency.
The victims suffocated from fumes of burning chemicals, he said. Another 11 employees were injured, six of them left in "serious state".
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