Overview
- Authorities reported more than 20 injured with no confirmed fatalities, including a man who suffered a heart attack and a pregnant woman treated in intensive care for smoke inhalation.
- The blast ignited multiple facilities within the Carlos Spegazzini complex, starting in a chemical or agrochemical site and extending to plastics and paint-related warehouses.
- Over 20 fire brigades, civil defense teams and federal chemical-risk units were deployed as hospitals activated contingency plans to receive patients.
- The Ezeiza–Cañuelas highway was closed, windows shattered kilometers away and residents were advised to shelter indoors due to potentially toxic smoke.
- The cause remains under investigation, and officials discounted unverified social-media claims of an aircraft crash near the industrial park.