<div style="text-align: justify; "><span style="font-size: 1rem;">At least nine people were killed in a fire at a golf ball factory in southern Taiwan over the weekend, including four firefighters who died in an explosion, officials said Monday.&nbsp;</span><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">The fire, which began Friday evening and raged all night, also injured more than 100 people, mostly workers in the factory in Pingtung county, according to the local government.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">One person was still listed as missing as further testing was required to verify the identity of some body fragments found at the scene, a county official told AFP.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">President Tsai Ing-wen and other top officials visited the scene Saturday to express condolences to the victims' families and vowed to investigate the cause of the fire.</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify;">An official with the Pingtung Fire Department told local media that chemical peroxide stored inside the factory could have been the cause of the one large and several smaller explosions.</div><div style="text-align: justify;">&nbsp;</div><div style="text-align: justify;">Several people were trapped inside due to the blasts, which caused a section of the factory roof to collapse. AFP</div><div style="text-align: justify;"><br></div><div style="text-align: justify; ">bnbd24/kh</div>