Sludge collapse kills 1 at a Chinese-funded nickel plant in Indonesia
PALU, Indonesia — One person is dead and two are missing after a nickel waste disposal site collapsed on Indonesia's Sulawesi Island, officials said Wednesday. It was the latest deadly accident at Chinese-funded nickel smelting plants there.
The Indonesian victims were operating dump trucks on Saturday when they were engulfed by sludge-like material that is removed in ferronickel burning, said Deddy Kurniawan, spokesperson for PT Indonesia Morowali Industrial Park, known as PT IMIP.
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