Nigeria, March 6 -- The Ogun State Government has shut down a steel manufacturing company, Quantum Steels Nigeria Limited, located at KM 16, Ikorodu-Sagamu Road, Ogijo, after an accident killed two factory workers and injured many others.

This is just as the police said they were investigating the industrial accident that occurred on Sunday at about 6 p.m.

A blast from one of the factory's machines left seven Nigerian and expatriate workers seriously injured.

Speaking with PREMIUM TIMES, the state commissioner of police, Lanre Ogunlowo, said reports reaching him indicated that two persons died in the accident.

The police spokesperson in Ogun, Omolola Odutola, said the incident was reported at the Ogijo Police Division by Joseph Adewal...