The three missing persons were found dead a few hours after the very powerful explosion that occurred at 08:15 Monday morning in the area of Itea in Grevena.
Two of the three workers were from the village of Dimitra and the town of Grevena, while the third was from a village in Kozani.
The guard of the factory who had just changed his shift and was leaving for home is injured and was transferred in shock to the hospital of Grevena.
According to the director of the hospital of Grevena Eftichia Kapatou who spoke to APE-MPA, the health condition of the guard is not a cause for concern and he has been given first aid.
Fire and police vehicles and ambulances of the ambulance service are at the site of the explosion. For safety reasons, access to the site has been blocked. Mr.Dimitris Palegas, a resident of Itea, Grevena, told APME that "the explosion was so strong and we felt the earth and our houses shaking like in the 1995 earthquake..."He spoke of a huge cloud of smoke that rose hundreds of meters above the ground and that the surrounding fields hundreds of meters from the factory's fence were filled with pieces of concrete and iron coming from the factory's facilities.
The mayor of Grevena, Giorgos Dassamanis, said the explosion was also heard in the city and the sound reached the municipality of Descati in Grevena and Aiani in Kozani. Some facilities of the factory that produced explosives for safety reasons are under the ground while according to the fire brigade officer on the spot "the factory has turned into a shapeless mass of rubble and iron."
As reported in ERT Kozani, the Regional Governor G. Kasapidis "the explosion that was felt in Grevena and Kozani was terrifying, while echelons of bomb squads are expected to ensure the safety of the site."
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