Explosion at a sugar factory in eastern Tanzania kills 11 workers, including 3 foreigners

By ALI SULTAN
Associated Press

ZANZIBAR, Tanzania (AP) — Police say an electric short at a sugar factory in Tanzania set off an explosion that killed 11 workers, including three foreign nationals. The electrical fault caused a steam pipe to burst as a technical team was readying machines to start production for the day on Thursday morning at the privately owned Mtibwa Sugar Factory in the Morogoro region in eastern Tanzania. A regional police chief says the three foreigners were from neighboring Kenya, Brazil and India. Two other workers were injured in the blast and were first treated at a local hospital before being rushed to the capital, Dodoma, for further treatment.