Korat: 7 hurt after repairs set off factory blaze

A flour depot in Nakhon Ratchasima was damaged in a fire that started while workers were repairing machinery yesterday, injuring seven workers, three of them seriously.

Quoting workers, police said the blaze began during repairs to a machine, when flames from a blowtorch set ablaze a flammable cloud of potato flour left in the machine.

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