Explosion at textile factory kills 5, injures 2

GUMI, South Korea, Aug. 27 (Yonhap) -- An explosion sparked a fire at a textile factory in southeastern South Korea on Saturday, killing five people and injuring two others, police said.
The explosion and fire broke out around 1:35 p.m. and gutted a three-story laboratory building at the compound of textile firm TK Chemical in Gumi, about 200 kilometers southeast of Seoul, they said.
Seven people were in the building at the time, of whom five were confirmed killed, police said. Two others injured were taken to hospital with serious burns, they said.
Ten fire trucks and about 50 firefighters brought the blaze under control in about two hours, police said.
Police suspected that experiments involving inflammable chemical substances might have ignited the explosion.