Blasts Rip Soviet Rubber Factory
From Reuters
MOSCOW —
Dozens of explosions wrecked a warehouse at a Soviet rubber factory on Friday, starting fires which injured a number of workers, Tass news agency reported.
Tass said the blasts at the Rezinotekhnika works in Saransk, an industrial town 270 miles southeast of Moscow, were caused by glowing cigarette ash in a garbage can.
It said “several dozen explosions” sent goods stored in the warehouse flying into the air and shattered the windows of two adjoining workshops.
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