Lotte Chemical Injured Increase from 35 to 56... Seosan City "Additional Damage Reports Ongoing"

On the 4th, office workers near the Lotte Chemical Daesan Plant in Seosan are sweeping up shattered glass fragments from the building caused by an explosion overnight.

[Asia Economy (Seosan) Reporter Jeong Il-woong] The number of injured people from the explosion accident at Lotte Chemical Daesan Plant in Seosan has increased.

According to Chungnam Province and Seosan City on the 5th, the number of injured from the explosion accident rose from 35 as of 10 a.m. the previous day to 56 as of 5 p.m.

Most of the additionally reported injured are local residents who visited hospitals individually and then reported their damage, which seems to have delayed the tally.

Considering this, Seosan City also expects the number of injured to increase further.

The city is currently operating a countermeasure situation room at the Daesan-eup Administrative Welfare Center to receive damage reports.

Meanwhile, the explosion and fire occurred around 3 a.m. the previous day at the naphtha cracking center (NCC) of Lotte Chemical Daesan Plant.

The naphtha cracking center is a facility that pyrolyzes naphtha at ultra-high temperatures above 1200 degrees Celsius to produce ethylene, propylene, pyrolysis gasoline, and others. Fire authorities and police believe the explosion occurred during the naphtha compression cracking process.

Due to this explosion and fire, nearby stores and houses around Lotte Chemical Daesan Plant suffered damage such as broken windows and parts of the building exterior walls falling off.

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