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Blast kills one at Bulgaria's biggest military plant

SOFIA, May 28 (Reuters) A blast at Bulgaria's biggest weapons maker, Arsenal, in the centre of the Balkan country killed one person on Friday night, the interior ministry said today.
A ministry's spokeswoman told Reuters the accident that killed a 52-year-old man occurred at 2220 local time at Arsenal's production unit in the town of Muglizh, 250 km east of the capital Sofia.
"There are no other injured people," she said.
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