16 injured, several missing after chemical site blast in Germany
At least 16 people were injured and several others were missing after an explosion at an integra-ted chemical site in the western German city of Leverkusen on Tuesday morning, local media reported.
The explosion happened at Ch-empark Leverkusen at around 9:40 a.m. for a previously unknown cause, with subsequent fire in the tank farm of a disposal cen-ter, said Currenta, the company operating the Chempark site, in a statement online.
Several employees were injured, with at least two of them seriously hurt, and five remained missing, the Curre-nta statement also said.
Local news portal Rheinische Post later said that 16 pe-ople were injured, four of them severely. The search for the missing people is underway.
Xinhua