Foreign workers seriously injured

Foreign workers seriously injured

KUALA LUMPUR (AFP): Six foreign workers suffered serious burns when a sawdust collection tank exploded at a sawmill factory about 27 kilometers northwest of here, a report said yesterday.

The victims, five Bangladeshis and an Indonesian, aged between 25 and 30, suffered 80 to 90 percent burns, Bernama news agency quoted hospital officials as saying.

Karn Kam Peng, acting assistant commissioner of police said the explosion occurred late afternoon at the Furniland Industries Sdn. Bhd. factory in the Pandamaran Light Industrial Estate, near Malaysia's premier harbor, Port Klang.

He said there was an explosion when one of the victims tried to douse a sawdust fire below the tank with a water hose. While putting off the fire, they splashed water on the tank to cool it, but the tank exploded.