site.btaDefence Ministry Starts Cleaning up Site around Midzhour Factory

Defence Ministry Starts Cleaning
up Site around
Midzhour Factory


Vidin, on the Danube, October 12 (BTA) - Representatives of the
Defence Ministry Friday started cleaning up the area around the
Midzhour ammunition factory near the village of Gorni Lom, the
Regional Directorate of the Interior Ministry in Vidin said in a
 press release Sunday.

An explosion occurred at the Midzhour factory on October 1,
killing 15 people.

The Interior Ministry informed the residents of the settlements
in the area that traffic will be restricted until the end of the
 activities for rendering the area safe.

In the meantime, the company owing the factory, Videx AD, said
that 39 workers from the destroyed utilization shed of the
factory will be laid off within one month.

It is still not known what will happen with the workers from the
 ammunition production shed. Videx AD is yet to take a decision
on the matter.
 
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