http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/world/europe/newsid_749000/749609.stm

Five people have been killed in an explosion at a fireworks factory in Spain.

Eight others were injured, three of them seriously.

One factory worker is missing after the blast, said the regional government's Emergency Coordination Centre.

The fire at the plant, the Hermanos Borreda factory in the south-eastern Spanish town of Rafelcofer about 60km south of Valencia, has been brought under control.

Flames engulfed the factory and spread to a nearby wood before finally being doused by firefighters.

The blast comes two days after an explosion at a fireworks plant in the Dutch town of Enschede killed at least 20 people and injured hundreds.

-- Jim McAteer (jim_mcateer@hotmail.com), May 16, 2000