Explosion at steel plant in western Turkiye leaves 16 dead, 13 injured
A huge explosion and fire at an iron and steelworks in western Turkiye left 16 people dead Monday, officials said. The fire at the HABAS plant in Aliaga, Izmir province, also injured 13 people, two of them critically, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan said in a televised address following a scheduled Cabinet meeting. "Judicial and administrative investigations have been launched into the explosion," Erdogan said. "The reasons and circumstances of this tragic event, which has deeply saddened our na…


