Huge Explosion Inside Candy Factory in Ciudad Juarez Injures 40 Agence France-Presse
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One dead and at least 40 injured in Mexican candy factory explosion (The Malay Mail Online/Reuters)

Associated Press Update: A second worker injured in an explosion inside a candy factory in the border city of Ciudad Juarez died Friday at a hospital, authorities said. The 18-year-old man died while being treated for third degree burns, said government health system spokesman Rosendo Gaytan. Another 33 workers remain hospitalized, six of them in critical condition, he said.

CIUDAD JUAREZ — A huge blast rocked a US-owned candy factory in northern Mexico yesterday, injuring more than 40 people and leaving 20 more missing, officials said.

Hundreds of people were working at the Blueberry factory when the explosion ripped through the building in Ciudad Juarez, a city bordering the US state of Texas, officials said.

Smoke billowed from the building, located in an industrial park, while a side wall collapsed following the early afternoon blast, an AFP correspondent said.

“We are searching for people in the debris. We calculate 20 have disappeared,” city government spokesman Guillermo Terrazas told AFP.

Terrazas said a boiler had exploded, causing the second-floor ceiling to collapse.

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