Blaze in Israel Fireworks Warehouse Kills One, Wounds Seven
One man was killed and seven wounded when a fireworks warehouse in northern Israel went up in flames in a series of colorful explosions, emergency services said Tuesday.
Firefighters were quelling the flames in the structure around Porat, a village near coastal city Netanya, while evacuating residents and working to prevent the fire from spreading to nearby homes.
Medics said they had found the body of a man in the building and pronounced him dead at the scene.
A fire service spokesman said they were dealing with "a very big fire, including explosions and fireworks being shot into the air."
Medics also took a 50-year-old man suffering burn wounds to hospital in serious condition. Another six people, two of them children, were lightly wounded from debris, medics said.
Firefighters said another person was still unaccounted for.
There were no details on the identity of the dead and wounded men.
Images distributed by police showed thick black smoke billowing, as fireworks exploded in the sky behind.
Police closed off the area and sent emergency units to the scene.
Source: Agence France Presse
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