Cause under investigation as Explosion Destroys Hungarian Gunpowder Plant, One Dies

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Might have just been a match and gunpowdwe. On the other hand, the cause is under investigation...

Explosion Destroys Hungarian Gunpowder Plant, One Dies Balatonfuzfo, Hungary

1/15/2000 Information Added: Sunday, January 16, 2000 - 7:42 PM ----- The blast early Saturday morning (Jan. 15, 2000) destroyed the gunpowderplant and killed one man, according to an official of the Catastrophe Defense Directorate as reported by the national news agency MTI.

The plant is located about 100 kms (60 miles) southwest of Budapest. The cause is under investigation, according to the government spokesman.

Link to story:

http://www.humanitarian.net/challenges.html

-- Carl Jenkins (Somewherepress@aol.com), January 16, 2000

Answers

How terrible!

-- Hokie (Hokie_@hotmail.com), January 16, 2000.

My gosh! How unfathomable?

An explosion at a gunpowder plant? Who would expect such a thing at a place like that?

Was it a software problem, or embedded systems?

-- CJS (cjs@cjs.com), January 16, 2000.


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