Saturday 4 June 2011

Recovery team removing blaze bodies

Wales Online 4 June 2011

Specialist police teams have begun recovering the bodies of four workers killed in the Chevron oil refinery blast, while one of their injured colleagues remains in a critical condition in hospital.

Dyfed Powys Police said the removal of the corpses would be "a slow and methodical process" due to the nature of the incident, which has been described by officials as a "tragic industrial accident".

Sources said that three of those who died were male painters while the fourth was a woman on fire-watch duties. The worker who survived the blast is being treated for severe burns at Morriston Hospital in Swansea.

Chief Superintendent Dean Richards, from Dyfed Powys Police, said that specialist police teams began recovering the bodies of those killed on Friday afternoon. A Home Office pathologist was sent to the scene and the Pembrokeshire Coroner has been informed.

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