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23 Jun 2019

Author:
Associated Press, South China Morning Post

Indonesia: Fire in unregulated match sticks & lighter factory kills 30 people, including children

"Indonesian police arrest three suspects after deadly fire in illegal factory kills 30 people, including children", 23 June 2019

Police in Indonesia have arrested the owner and two managers of an unregulated factory in North Sumatra that was engulfed by a fire that killed 30 people....

The three suspects could each face five years in prison if found guilty of negligence leading to deaths....

The business was operating from a house in the North Sumatra district of Langkat and reportedly made match sticks and lighters.

Its female employees were trapped in Friday's blaze by a locked door. Five children died in the inferno and only four people escaped, Atmaja said.

...A preliminary investigation found the blaze may have started with a worker testing the "spark wheel" of a lighter and inadvertently igniting other flammable agents including a gas canister....

...Millions of Indonesians work in unsafe conditions in informal or poorly regulated industries and accidents and fatalities are common.