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A blast ripped through an explosives factory in northwest Turkey on Tuesday, killing 12 people and injuring four, Interior Minister Ali Yerlikaya said, adding that an investigation had been launched. CNN Turk broadcast photographs showing a fireball and smoke rising from the factory building at the time of the blast, while subsequent video showed the mangled metal framework of the building destroyed in the blast. The explosion occurred at a factory in the village of Kavakli in Balikesir province some 100 miles northeast of the city of Izmir. CNN Turk cited the local governor as saying there was no suspicion of sabotage. A deadly explosion ripped through a factory in northwest Turkey on Tuesday.
Persons: Ali Yerlikaya, CNN Turk, IHA Organizations: Interior, CNN Locations: Turkey, Kavakli, Balikesir, Izmir
Turkey explosives factory blast: 11 killed
  + stars: | 2024-12-24 | by ( Hassan Tayier | Edward Szekeres | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +1 min
CNN —Eleven people were killed in a blast at an explosives and ammunition factory in the village of Kavakli in the Karesi district of Balikesir province in northwest Turkey on Tuesday, according to the country’s interior minister Ali Yerlikaya, who said that an investigation had been launched. Local authorities ruled out the possibility of sabotage, CNN affiliate CNN Turk reported. Authorities are working to confirm how many people were inside the building at the time, CNN Turk reported. A screenshot of a video shows the blast at an explosives and ammunition factory in Turkey's northwest Balikesir province on Tuesday. IHA/ReutersThe interior ministry, who had initially reported that 12 people had died, revised the death count to 11 later Tuesday, saying the first report was announced mistakenly.
Persons: Ali Yerlikaya, CNN Turk, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, , , ” Erdogan, Balikesir, Yilmaz Tunc, IHA, CNN’s Kathy Rose O’Brien Organizations: CNN, Local, Turkish Locations: Kavakli, Karesi, Balikesir, Turkey, Turkish, Turkey's, Balikesir province
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