One killed in explosion at Spanish weapons factory

An explosion at an arms factory in central Spain used mainly to dismantle cluster bombs killed one person and wounded four others, one of them seriously, today, an official said.

Two rescue helicopters were deployed to the factory just outside the town of El Gordo in Castilla-La Mancha, 175km (110 miles) west of Madrid, and a wounded person was flown to Getafe hospital in the capital, a regional Interior Ministry spokeswoman said.