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Around 20 bodies have been found at a South Korean lithium battery factory after a massive blaze, the Yonhap news agency says, with firefighters still searching the building. According to one firefighter, over 100 people were working in the factory when workers heard a series of explosions from the second floor, where lithium-ion batteries are inspected and packaged. IMAGES
People gather at the site of a massive explosion at a firecracker factory in northern India which left at least 18 dead and up to 16 injured. IMAGES
Seventy children were still missing following a blaze that destroyed a school dormitory in central Kenya and killed at least 17 young pupils, Deputy President Rigathi Gachagua says in a statement in Endarasha where the tragedy took place overnight. SOUNDBITE
A fire at a primary school dormitory which killed at least 17 children in central Kenya is an "injury to the republic", interior Minister Kithure Kindiki says in a statement during a visit to the scene where he also offered condolences to families of the victims. "The country has woken up this morning to very devastating news," he says. "This injury is not an injury to Nyeri county, it's an injury to the republic of Kenya." SOUNDBITE
South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol leaves after visiting the site where a massive fire at a lithium battery factory killed at least 22 people in one of the country's worst factory disasters in years. IMAGES
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