Source: SFGate
“A huge explosion and fire at an iron and steelworks in western Turkey left 16 people dead Monday, officials said. The fire at the HABAS plant in Aliaga, Izmir province, also injured 13 people, two of them critically, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said in a televised address following a scheduled Cabinet meeting. ‘Judicial and administrative investigations have been launched into the explosion,’ Erdogan said. ‘The reasons and circumstances of this tragic event, which has deeply saddened our nation, as well as whose negligence was involved and who is responsible, will be revealed.’ Provincial Gov. Suleyman Elban said that a crane fell into a furnace as it was replacing a boiler, causing an explosion in a nearby steel mill. There were 200 workers in the vicinity instead of the usual 300 because production had been halted for the boiler switch, he said.” (11/09/26)