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The community of Richards Bay has banded together to help the firefighters battling the woodchip mill inferno.

Staff of all the nearby factories were immediately asked to remove their goods to safer locations.

Chennai: Twenty workers had a miraculous escape when a fire broke out at a firm involved in manufacturing wires at Chengalpet on Thursday.

A factory fire at iPhone assembler Pegatron India was sparked by a short-circuit after an electrical switch was left on, following testing of the devices as they were being put together, two sources briefed on the matter told Reuters. The lapse at key Apple supplier Pegatron's only factory in India, located in the southern state of Tamil Nadu, has cost three straight days of lost production, with no clarity on when operations might resume. After Reuters sent queries to Pegatron for this report, the firm told the Taiwan stock exchange on Wednesday that "a small switchboard experienc...

Search teams found two more bodies on Sunday at the site of a golf ball factory fire in southern Taiwan, raising the death toll to nine, according to Taiwanese media reports. One person remained missing.