Fire kills 15 at Russian explosives factory, 22 October 2021

Fifteen people died and one person was missing after a fire broke out at a Russian explosives factory southeast of Moscow on Friday, authorities said...

“The fate of one person remains unknown,” it said in a statement.

One more person was hospitalised with “major burns” and is in a “serious condition”, it added.

The emergencies ministry published images showing smoke and debris at the severely damaged factory building. Earlier it said the fire could have broken out as a result of “violations of technological processes and safety measures” at the local PGUP Elastic factory...

According to its website, it belongs to state conglomerate Rostec which brings together a range of companies supplying industrial or high-tech products to civilian and military sectors.

But local media said it went bankrupt in 2015 and that its workshops were used by other companies of the explosives sector...