Orchard explosion kills 3 workers
published : 29 Nov 2023 at 13:46
writer: R May
ORIGINAL SOURCE/WRITER: Online Reporters
CHIANG MAI: A third person has died from an explosion while workers were making a chemical mixture at a longan plantation on Tuesday evening.
Two women were killed immediately by the blast, one Thai and one from Myanmar. A third worker, a man from Myanmar, died from his injuries late on Tuesday night.
According to officials, the lethal explosion occurred in an isolated single-storey building in the middle of a longan orchard and about 500 metres from the nearest community, in Ban Chai Ngam village of tambon Mae Waen in Phrao district, on Tuesday evening.
At the time, workers there were mixing 75 kilogrammes of the potassium chlorate with 50kg of urea to make a substance to stimulate longan tree growth. The blast destroyed the building and two parked vehicles.
There was a similar powerful explosion of potassium chlorate in San Patong district in 1999.
Vocabulary
- blast: an explosion - การระเบิด
- explosion (noun): the sudden violent bursting and loud noise of something such as a bomb exploding; the act of deliberately causing something to explode - การระเบิด
- growth: increasing in size or amount; getting bigger or more numerous -
- immediately (adv): happening right after something else with no delay; right away - ทันที
- isolated: set apart from; disconnected from - แยกออกมา ตั้งอยู่เดี่ยวๆ
- lethal: causing or able to cause death -
- occurred (verb): happened - เกิดขึ้น
- officials: people who have the power to make decisions or enforce the law - เจ้าหน้าที่ผู้มีอำนาจ
- orchard: an area of land where fruit trees are grown - สวนหรือแปลงผลไม้
- stimulate: to make something develop or become more active; to encourage something - กระตุ้น, ส่งเสริม
- storey (noun): a level in a structure; a level in a building - ชั้น, ชั้นของตึกหรืออาคาร
