TOKYO: An explosion at a chemical factory in Japan killed at least five people and injured a dozen more on Thursday, police said.

The blast happened in the early afternoon at the plant in Yokkaichi, central Japan, when maintenance crews were working on a heat exchanger used in the production of silicon products, a plant spokesman said.

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