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.