Footage showed shards
of glass and metal scattered outside the plant. “There are unfortunately 11 deaths... eight women and three men. And
we have seven injured,” Turkey’s interior minister Ali Yerlikaya said at the
scene. Two of the seven injured were under observation in hospital, he
added. The authorities previously put the death toll at 12, with five injured.
According to the governor of Balikesir
province, the blast happened shortly before 8.30am local time.