A chemical plant explosion which occurred at BASF’s headquarters in Ludwigshafen (southwestern Germany) on October 17, 2016 has claimed the lives of at least two people, six people were seriously injured and one person is still missing. According to the information our correspondent gathered, the explosion triggered a huge fire and a grey smoke into the sky from the site on a pipeline that transports the company’s raw materials. The site (Landeshafen Nord) where the explosion happened is a harbour used for the transportation of liquefied gases and combustible fluids. The company (BASF) has over 110,000 employees worldwide and 36,000 workers in Ludwigshafen with sales of more than 70 billion euros ($77 billion) in 2015. Investigation is still going on to find out the real cause of the blast.
Source: Viewers Corner News.