What the records say
- When
- 1991
- Kind
- Fire
- Coordinates
- 3.20° N, 101.56° E
- Description
- 1991 industrial explosion in Sungai Buloh, Malaysia
- Deaths
- 26
- Date from
- year in its Wikidata description
Bright Sparklers fireworks disaster
1991 explosion in Sungai Buloh, Malaysia
On 7 May 1991 at 3:45 pm MST in Sungai Buloh, Selangor, Malaysia, a massive explosion at the Bright Sparklers fireworks factory caused 26 deaths, 103 injuries, and the destruction of 46 homes, damaging 149 others. The blast, audible 7–8 km away, was nicknamed the "Hiroshima of Sungai Buloh" by local media due to its devastating impact.
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- Wikipedia year pages (English), by Wikipedia contributorsWikipedia contributors · names it “The Bright Sparklers Fireworks Factory at Sungai Buloh, Selangor caught fire and caused a huge explosion that killed 29 and injured 83 people”Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0Source page
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