At least eight people have died, one was missing and nearly a dozen others wounded after a silo exploded on Wednesday at an agricultural co-operative in southern Brazil, the government of Parana state said in a statement on Thursday. The blast occurred at the C.Vale co-operative in the small town of Palotina, about 600 kilometres (373 miles) away from the state's capital Curitiba. Parana is one of Brazil's top grain producing states. It noted that nearly a dozen people had been hospitalized, excluding the fatalities. "I'm deeply saddened by what happened at C.Vale," Agriculture Minister Carlos Favaro wrote on messaging platform X, formerly known as Twitter.

Source: News 24 July 27, 2023 20:20 UTC