Explosion at fireworks factory
by Editor di-ve.com
GOZO, Malta (di-ve news)--August 19 , 2005 - 0900CEST--No-one was injured when a fireworks container exploded at the Gharb factory this morning.
A police report said that at about 0100CEST on Friday morning, the police were called in after a fireworks factory exploded in Birbuba Street, Gharb.
Luckily there was nobody on site when the explosion occurred. The Gozo District Police are carrying out the investigations. Duty Magistrate Paul Coppini appointed various experts to help in the inquiry.
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VALLETTA, Malta (di-ve news) -- August 20, 2005 -- 0915CEST --The massive fireworks factory explosion outside Gharb, Gozo, on Friday morning dominates the front pages of Saturday's local newspapers.
The Times, under the headline "Explosion flattens Gozo fireworks factory", reports that no one was injured in a massive fireworks factory explosion that shook Gozo in the early hours of Friday morning. However, several homes were damaged in a residential area some distance away. In another story, the same newspaper reports that thirty farmers have filed a judicial protest claiming that the land they farmed in Manikata was being taken away from them illegally and abusively in order to make way for a golf course.
The Malta Independent dedicates its front page to a story about an 86-year old Maltese women who after 73 years in Tunisia has returned to her homeland -- "Back 'home' after 73 years". In another headline, the same newspaper says "Fireworks factory blast in Gharb".
In-Nazzjon also reports on the Gharb fireworks factory explosion on Friday under the headline "Explosion destroys a private fireworks complex", saying that no one was injured in this explosion. The same newspaper also gives prominence to NSO's latest figures revealing a drop of 1,139 in unemployment over the last year.
L-Orizzont, apart from its report about the fireworks factory explosion, reveals how the Avian Flu is extending outside the South East of Asia while the Maltese government is adding on extra pressure on pharmacists by demanding from them the details of all those persons who have ordered the antiviral.
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