At least 22 people were injured on Friday after a powerful explosion triggered a major fire at an industrial park housing several chemical firms and other manufacturers south of Argentina’s capital.
A thick column of black and orange smoke rose hundreds of metres into the sky above the municipality of Ezeiza – an area about 40 kilometres from Buenos Aires that includes Argentina’s main international airport – as flames lit up the surrounding buildings.
Gaston Granados, the town’s mayor, told the C5N news channel that the situation was “tremendous,” noting that the fire and the explosions were “occu
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