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About sixteen percents have been reportedly found. Then. When Leon batteries at a

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warehouse in South Korea exploded on Monday
morning, some residents and similar incidents had

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occurred the previous They Sunday with a
massive fire at a battery recycling warehouse in

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Paisley Glassgow, and some of the
people claimed the fire outbreak at Paisley Glasgow

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was deliberate. Today, there is
a massive fire at a Leon battery manufacturing

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warehouse in western South Korea. One
of the residents treated. What have triggered

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the explosion remains unclaire as government officials
are yet to issue statement regarding the batteries

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explosion. International news agencies have reported
that the massive factory fire that began after

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several Leon batteries exploded has killed at
least sixteen people in South Korea. We

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learned the blears broke out on Monday
morning at the Richer plant in Western City,

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about forty five kilometers twenty eight miles
south of South Korea capital So Footages

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from local television showed explosions going off
as firefighters sought to put out the fire

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with sal avoiding water. A part
of the roof had collapsed as seen in

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the footage is posted online. South
Korea is considered the leading producer of Leon

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batteries, which are used in many
items from the electric by goods to laptops.

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Western’s medical Authority Saint John’s Sick said
sixteen people have been confirmed then,

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while seven others were injobed. Sam
then the statements after South Korean news agency

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yon Have News Agency had earlier reported
that some twenty bodies had been found inside

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the plant, but mister King told
a televised briefing that sixteen people died and

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two others have suffered serious injuries.
The Aractional factory housed on estimated thirty five

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thousand battery cells on its second floor, while the batteries were inspected and packaged,

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with most told elsewhere, according to
local authorities. Local fire official King

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Jin young said the fire began win
a series of battery cells exploded, though

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it remains unclear what triggered the initial
explosions. About one hundred workers were said

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on the premises at the time.
Mister King said it was difficult to enter

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the site initially due to fields of
additional explosions as a leon fire can react

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intensely with water firefighters had to use
dry sound to extinguish the blaze, which

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took several hours to get under control. Leon batteries are at risk of exploding,

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people are damaged or when heated.
While a fire can be extinguished,

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it remains at risk of re ignited
without warning due to the chemical reaction,

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according to some experts. The fire, which has largely been extinguished, occurred

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at about ten thirty am on Munday
local time at the factory run by battery

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manufacturer Origial in Wision, south of
the capital Zoul. The blends began after

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a series of battery cells exploded inside
a warehouse with some thirty five thousand units,

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said King Jin Young, a local
fire officials d breday, you bring

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nies in a mortgage