Five killed, three injured in Indonesian blast

At least five were killed and three wounded in an explosion at a shipyard on an Indonesian island of Bangka.

At least five people were killed and three wounded in an explosion at a shipyard on an Indonesian island of Bangka, off eastern Sumatra.

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The blast, believed to have occurred in a gas tube, took place on Saturday when a group of workers were welding in the shipyard, reported an Indonesian daily Kompas on Sunday.