Explosion petrochemical plant Spain leaves one dead - In addition 8 injured and one missing.

One dead, eight wounded, two of them with severe burns, and a missing person left an explosion and later fire on Tuesday in a chemical industry located in an industrial estate in Tarragona, Catalonia (northeast of Spain), regional authorities reported.

The head of Interior of Catalonia, Miquel Buch, confirmed "one dead and one disappeared by the explosion in La Canonja", said on Twitter the Ministry (regional ministry) of Catalan Interior.

So far the causes of the incident in the chemical company Iqoxe are unknown, but social networks shared videos that showed large flares from which smoke columns came out, and neighbors said they had heard a very loud detonation and felt how the windows of their houses.

Explosion petrochemical plant Spain leaves one dead

A person died inside a building in a town near the industrial estate, which collapsed due to the blast of the explosion, Civil Protection reported.

The incident generated shortly before 7:00 p.m. local time (6:00 p.m. GMT) left eight affected, two with serious burns, and another six with milder wounds, emergency services said.

In addition, a person who worked in the company is missing, explained the Ministry of Interior.

The emergency services had activated after the explosion the "incident protocol with multiple victims", to take to the place specialized units in burns.

Although, after the facts, the authorities asked as a precaution the population of several nearby cities to confine themselves in their homes, shortly afterwards they reduced the measure to only the areas immediately adjacent to the industrial estate.

"Displaced environmental units report that there is no presence of toxic airborne in the environment," said Civil Protection.

Firefighters indicated that about thirty endowments were working at the site to extinguish the fire coming out of an ethylene oxide tank and "cooling the neighboring tanks", while checking "the enclosure in case people were trapped."

"We remain very attentive to the information that comes to us about the fire," said the president of the government, Pedro Sánchez, who said he had spoken with the Catalan regional president, Quim Torra, "to offer the necessary support."

First hostel open as Beaches look empty

The weather phenomenon that since the previous Friday generates strong winds throughout the national territory and particularly a higher than normal swell on the Caribbean coast, has already made it necessary to open the first shelter.

This was confirmed by Alexander Solis, president of the National Emergency Commission (CNE), who explained that it is a situation that has generated alert since January 6.

As for the winds, Solís gave details of its consequences in the Chorotega region. "The most important affectation is in the Catem, which is the Center for the Attention of the Migrant North Population, in the canton of La Cruz, in Guanacaste, where we have already enabled a shelter and, in addition to that, we have provided some supplies with Migration."

Regarding the waves in the Caribbean, he said that the local emergency committees are quantifying the damages and maintain surveillance to act if necessary. However, he advanced some details.

"We had the biggest impact this Tuesday and the most affected places are the Barra de Pacuare, the Laguna Madre de Dios and Parismina, where we report 45 affected houses of which seven have some degree of destruction," said Solis.

These are joined by 15 families is Westfalia de Limón, which has been given the necessary assistance so that they can meet their basic needs without problems.