At least 22 people were killed on Wednesday in an explosion at a Suphan Buri fireworks factory where a blast a year ago left one person dead and three injured. About 10 more people are said to be missing.
The explosion occurred in tambon Salakhao of Muang district around 3.30pm.
The blast spread debris in a radius of 100 metres, with human remains scattered everywhere.
Local residents said that about 20 workers had arrived to work at the factory in the morning and that they saw nobody come out after the explosion.
“We cannot tell whether all the workers were killed. The officials are entering the site to investigate. They have not found any survivors,” provincial governor Nattapat Suwanprateep told Reuters earlier.
The factory owner was not among the dead because he had gone out to deliver fireworks to customers at the time, an official said.
