Berlin: The explosion in the industrial park for chemical companies in Germany killed at least one person on Tuesday, with 16 injured and four still disappeared.
Official API testing the air said there was no danger for the nearest population after the initial authority urged the person in it.
The explosion at the Chempark site waste management facility in the city of Leverkusen, near Cologne, send a large black cloud into the air.
Need firefighters almost four hours to extinguish the fire holding after the explosion.
The German federal office for civil protection and disaster assistance initially classified the incident as “extreme threats.” But later on Tuesday, the Cologne firefight department tweeted that the measurement of air pollution “did not show any abnormalities.
‘” They say the smoke is down but they will continue to measure the air for poisons.
The city of Leverkusen said in a statement that the explosion occurred in a storage tank for solvents.
Four people were hospitalized with a severe injury.
“We are very concerned about this tragic accident and the death of our employees,” Chempark’s head, Lars Friedrich., Said in a written statement.
At present, the company that operates the Chemical Park, said the explosion occurred at 9:40 a.m.
and then developed into Fire.
“Sirens operated to warn residents and warnings sent,” Surrenta said in the statement.
The police at the nearest Cologne said a large number of officers, firefighters, helicopters and ambulances from all regions had been deployed to the scene.
They asked all residents to stay inside and warned people from outside Leverkusen to avoid the area.
They also closed some of the nearest main highways.
Koelner Daily Stadt-Anzeiger reported that the cloud of smoke moved northwest to Burscheid and Leichlingen cities.
Leverkusen is home to Bayer, one of the biggest German chemical companies.
It has around 163,000 residents and cologne borders, which are the fourth largest city of Germany and have around 1 million residents.
Many residents work at Bayer, which is one of the largest entrepreneurs in Indonesia.
region.
The chemical park is located very close to the banks of the Rhine river.
Letter letter has three facilities in the region.
More than 70 different companies based in locations in Leverkusen, Dormagen, and Krefeld-Uerdden.