30 dead in fire outbreak at Indonesian home used as factory

At least 30 people including children on Friday were killed in a fire that swept through a house used as a match factory in Indonesia’s North Sumatra province.

An official, Irwan Syahri, from the local disaster mitigation agency in Langkat district, said the dead included three children while many of the victims were burned beyond recognition.

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AP news disclosed that Binjai police chief Nugroho Tri Nuryanto said a gas canister explosion may have set off the blaze, but that the cause still needed to be confirmed.

A man, Faisal Riza, whose wife Marlina died in the fire, said the workers at the match business were all women, some of whom had their children with them.

In 2017, at least 46 people were killed and dozens more injured in a blaze that tore through a fireworks factory outside Jakarta.

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