Fire breaks out at Vietnamese ceramic firm; no casualties reported

March 22, 2016 | 16:14

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A building material facility in northern Vietnam was engulfed in flames on Sunday, local officials said.

There were no casualties during the incident, officials in Vinh Phuc Province confirmed, citing initial reports.

Although the scale of property damage is still unknown, a number of highly flammable materials and devices were brought outside by the workers of the company, the reports revealed.

The fire occurred in Phuc Yen Commune in Vinh Phuc, a neighboring province of Hanoi, at 5:30 pm when Viglacera Thang Long, a ceramic tiles manufacturer of Hanoi-based building material firm Viglacera Corporation, burst into flames, provincial police said.

Tuoi Tre (Youth) newspaper reporters said that the incident happened at assembling section No. 2 of the factory with columns of smoke blackening nearby areas, which could be seen from locations far from the commune.

As soon as they were informed, police dispatched seven fire trucks to the site to resolve the situation, but it was not until 7:00 pm that the firefighters succeeded in actually extinguishing the fire.

The cause of the blaze is still under investigation, provincial police have said.

On the same day, a blaze broke out at noon inside Hoa An Market in Bien Hoa City, Dong Nai, a southeastern province of Vietnam, and was completely put out by local firefighters.

No casualties were found in the incident, local officials said, adding that further investigation would be conducted to find out the cause as well as the property loss.

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