An explosion at a soap manufacturing company in Tema Industrial Area has left one person dead and another severely injured.

The Administrative Manager of Delta Agro, the factory in question said on Accra-based Citi Fm that three workers were cleaning an empty oil tanker when the explosion occurred.

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“When we got to the scene when we found that the tank that stored the dirty oil for the rubbish had exploded and, according to the workers, because it was empty, they were trying to de-sludge it because it had sludge. So in the course of trying to de-sludge it, they had to cut an area to enable the de-sludging to be easily done then all of a sudden, the thing exploded.”

Reports indicate that the deceased worker died on the way to the hospital while the injured one is receiving treatment at the Legon Hospital.

Fortunately, the third worker did not sustain any injuries.

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The Police, the Fire Service, and the Environmental Protection Agency have reportedly been to the scene of the explosion to assess the situation and the impact.

An eyewitness, Kingsley Letsa who works in a different company adjacent the Delta Agro factory said “when there was an explosion in the factory and we all had to rush out of our offices and then we realized that they started packing people into pickups and taking them to hospital.”