Jakarta: Two people have been identified as suspects by authorities investigating a deadly fire at an Indonesian lighter factory that killed 30 people including several children, a police chief said.
A man and a woman, named only as the owner and supervisor of the workshop, were arrested in North Sumatra’s capital Medan shortly after the fire ripped through a rented home that operated as a lighter factory in the town of Binjai, west of the capital yesterday.
The business was initially reported as a matchstick factory but an investigation revealed it was actually producing lighters.The gas lighter exploded and the panicked worker threw it on a pile of thousands of ready-to-pack products, triggering a massive explosion. Victims trapped inside could not escape because the front door was locked and the fire spread quickly because most of the house structures were made of wood.
All victims were local residents who lived near the factory while the owner and supervisor only came to monitor the business once a month, Nuryanto said.
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