Two People Dead As Explosion And Fire Rips Through Foxconn iPad Plant In China

Two people are dead and 16 injured - two seriously - after an explosion and fire ripped through the Foxconn iPad at Chengdu in China.

Reports say 10 fire engines were at the scene as well as police and ambulances. Below is the scene from the local hospital:

The Foxconn plant assembles Apple products.  The blaze was centred on an iPad 2 production line and several floors of the complex are badly damaged.  Already it's being claimed Apple product production will be seriously hit.

The Chinese technology news website, MICgadget, quoted an eye witness:

The scene is very chaos. All we can hear is the noise of people shouting, fire engines, ambulances and police cars. The video just uploaded for one hour.

At 21:00, there are 6 men and 1 woman were sent to the Sichuan Provincial People’s Hospital. Those seven people are young adults, including two of them are seriously injured, two of them are slightly injured and the other three were minor.

Here's video footage from the scene:

An investigation has been launched into the cause of the blast. One report says the plant was hit by a bolt of lightening.

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