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The explosion which occurred on Thursday, May 23 was a result of an electrical fault that caused a steam pipe to burst as a technical team was readying machines to start production for the day at the privately owned Mtibwa Sugar Factory in the Morogoro region in eastern Tanzania, regional police chief Alex Mkama told the media.
An explosion has taken place in a sugar factory in Tanzania, which took the lives of 11 workers. The victims included three foreign nationals, police said.
The explosion which occurred on Thursday, May 23 was a result of an electrical fault that caused a steam pipe to burst as a technical team was readying machines to start production for the day at the privately owned Mtibwa Sugar Factory in the Morogoro region in eastern Tanzania, regional police chief Alex Mkama told the media.
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The three foreigners were from neighboring Kenya, Brazil, and India. Two other workers were injured in the blast and were treated at the Morogoro hospital. Mtibwa is one of the country’s major sugar-producing factories, manufacturing at least 70,000 metric tons of sugar annually, according to government data.
