Greece probes biscuit factory fire as fifth victim found

Athens: Greek investigators on Tuesday were looking into the causes of a fire that killed five workers at a biscuit factory in the country s worst ind...

Athens: Greek investigators on Tuesday were looking into the causes of a fire that killed five workers at a biscuit factory in the country's worst industrial accident in years.

The explosion early on Monday ripped through an entire section of the Violanta factory near the central Greek city of Trikala.

"The case will be investigated to the end... possibly, even today, we may have an initial picture of what caused the fire," Civil Protection Minister Giannis Kefalogiannis told state TV ERT.

Four of the victims were found soon after the blast but the fifth was only recovered on Tuesday morning as pockets of fire made the operation difficult, the fire department said.

A fire department officer told AFP a gas leak may have caused the fire but they "cannot rule out another possibility" yet.