‘No longer much hope’ of finding five missing workers at German blast site

Emergency vehicles attending the Chempark site (Oliver Berg/dpa via AP)

Officials said they have little hope of finding five missing workers alive, a day after an explosion at an industrial park for chemical companies in western Germany killed at least two people and injured 31 others.

Tuesday’s explosion at the waste management facility of the Chempark site – in the city of Leverkusen, near Cologne – sent a large black cloud of smoke into the air and ignited a blaze that took firefighters almost four hours to extinguish.