One work­er at a Lat­vian man­u­fac­tur­er is dead af­ter a fire breaks out at fa­cil­i­ty

A press re­lease re­ferred to it as sim­ply, “the in­ci­dent.” But a fire at an Olain­farm site in Latvia last week has left one per­son dead, and in­jured an­oth­er, the com­pa­ny an­nounced Mon­day.

Just be­fore mid­night Nov. 26, a fire broke out in the pro­duc­tion build­ing of JSC Olain­farm,  as the re­sult of an “ac­ci­dent,” a com­pa­ny spokesper­son said in an email to End­points News. The two vic­tims were both com­pa­ny em­ploy­ees, and the caus­es of the ac­ci­dent are still be­ing de­ter­mined.

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