Explosion in Istanbul suburb wounds ten: Turkey's NTV

ISTANBUL (Reuters) - A steam boiler explosion in a cosmetics manufacturing plant in an Istanbul suburb wounded ten people on Monday, Turkish broadcasters NTV and CNN Turk said.

It blast happened in an area of the working-class suburb of Sultanbeyli, where there are many car repair shops and small factories, NTV said.

Images on social media showed fire trucks putting out a fire and smoke coming out of the top of a three-storey building.

(Reporting by Humeyra Pamuk and Ece Toksabay; Writing by David Dolan; Editing by Nick Tattersall)

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