One dead in an explosion at the most important pyrotechnics in Asturias. The employee of the centenary company of Cangas del Narcea was manufacturing gunpowder in a booth at the facilities of the Pirotecnia Pablo firm.

The explosion occurred in one of the secluded booths that these companies usually have for handling explosive substances that are later put into firecrackers and rockets. In 2011 and 2012 the firm was champion of a world fireworks competition held in Italy.