🔻At least 16 people were killed following an explosion at a steel plant near İzmir, Turkey.

The incident also left 13 injured.

Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, the President of Turkey, has ordered an investigation into the matter.

İzmir’s governor says that eight workers at this steel plant, about 60 kilometers north of the port city of İzmir, were trapped.

The explosion occurred around noon local time.

Published images show a huge mass of thick smoke rising into the sky.

According to İzmir’s governor, the explosion was caused by the collapse of a crane in a large industrial furnace.