Worker dies in Poland explosion

One person was killed and three injured in an explosion at a thermo-electric plant near Poland's northwestern city of Gryfino…

One person was killed and three injured in an explosion at a thermo-electric plant near Poland's northwestern city of Gryfino.

Provincial police spokesman Przemyslaw Kimon said the explosion occurred in the boiler house to which coal is transported by conveyor.

Two buildings in the compound collapsed and a third was damaged by the explosion, but power output has not decreased, PAP news agency said.

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