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Four die in Glasgow factory explosion

Glasgow factory blast - Four dead
Glasgow factory blast - Four dead

Four people have died following an explosion at a plastics factory in Glasgow.

Forty people were injured, 16 seriously, after the blast destroyed the four-storey Stockline Plastics in the west of the city at around midday.

Rescuers pulled seven survivors from the debris of the collapsed building.

Tonight fire crews were unable to say how many people were still missing but they were no longer in contact with anyone trapped under the rubble.

The cause of the blast, believed to have originated in some ovens, is still being investigated.