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Four work­ers re­mained hos­pi­talised yes­ter­day and res­i­dents were left shak­en and trau­ma­tised fol­low­ing Thurs­day’s pow­er­ful ex­plo­sion at Ram­co In­dus­tries Ltd’s San Fer­nan­do fa­cil­i­ty. Now, res­i­dents are call­ing for an emer­gency evac­u­a­tion plan to pre­vent a re­peat of what they de­scribed as a fright­en­ing or­deal.

Po­lice said two of the in­jured work­ers are be­ing treat­ed in the High De­pen­den­cy and In­ten­sive Care Units at the San Fer­nan­do Gen­er­al Hos­pi­tal, while the oth­er two un­der­went surgery. All sus­tained first-de­gree burns to 15 to 25 per cent of their bod­ies.

The ex­plo­sion oc­curred around 7 pm at one of the fa­cil­i­ty’s load­ing bays at Cross Cross­ing. Ac­cord­ing to Ram­co, the blaze was “swift­ly con­tained thanks to the prompt and co­or­di­nat­ed ef­forts of the emer­gency ser­vices.”