Indians among five killed in Iraq factory blast

At least five workers, including two Indians, were killed and 15 others injured today in an explosion at an iron factory on the outskirts of a northern Iraqi city of Irbil. Police chief Abdul-Khaliq Talaat said the cause of the explosion just outside the city of Irbil was not immediately known.But the owner, Ali Ibrahim, said the iron factory works with military scraps that might have included rockets. Five workers, including two Indians, two Arabs, a Kurd, were killed in the incident. Workers from India, Bangladesh, Pakistan and other Asian nations have flocked to the Kurdish region in recent years as the economy there has grown.Irbil is located in Iraq's Kurdish-controlled north about 350km north of Baghdad.An Irbil hospital worker confirmed the deaths.