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Six injured in accident at Arsenal arms factory

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Six workers were injured in an accident at Arsenal arms factory in Kazanluk.

One of the workers is in serious, though not life-threatening, condition. The workers injured are aged 23 to 60. As a result of the accident a restricted fire broke out, but the factory’s management state there is no danger of its spreading.

This is not the first accident at the arms factory in Kazanluk. In mid-March this year two people were killed when a fire broke out at a facility in the plant. Seven people have been killed in different accidents there since 2011, one of them a woman. 



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