A Chinese worker who was injured in the explosion at a nickel smelter furnace being brought to the Morowali Regional General Hospital in Central Sulawesi on Dec 24, 2023. - AFP
BEIJING: China's foreign ministry said on Wednesday (Dec 27) that eight Chinese nationals had died in Indonesia after a fire broke out at a nickel smelter on Sulawesi island over the weekend.
Local police said on Tuesday the total death toll had risen to 18 since the Sunday blaze, eight of whom were foreign workers, without naming their nationalities.
