Rescuers drain fuel tank to recover factory blast victims

Inferno: Firemen fighting to contain the blaze at the cement factory in Rawang.

PETALING JAYA: Some 725,000l of fuel was drained from an oil storage tank at a cement factory in Jalan Kuang, Rawang, before the remains of three men who fell in during an explosion could be recovered.

Yesterday, firemen finally retrieved the bodies of Mohd Ziehafizan Abd Rahman, 28, Zamri Adenan, 35, and Baskaran Thanakodi, 49, after an all-night operation.