<div><span style="font-size: 1rem;"><b>An explosion at a furniture workshop in Azerbaijan’s capital Baku today killed six people and injured two dozen others, officials said.</b></span><br></div><div><br></div><div>Video footage shared by the emergencies ministry showed rescuers lifting a man from the smouldering rubble of a burnt out building, while firefighters combed the wreckage for survivors.</div><div><br></div><div>“The bodies of six people have been found and removed from the rubble,” the prosecutor’s office said.</div><div><br></div><div>At least 24 people were injured, three of whom were pulled from the rubble, it said earlier.</div><div><br></div><div>The cause of the blast was not immediately clear but prosecutors said they had launched a criminal investigation into a breach of “fire safety regulations”.</div><div><br></div><div>The incident came a week after a blaze at a maternity clinic in Baku left four infants dead, a case the president vowed to personally oversee.</div><div><br></div><div>In April 2022, a gas tank explosion at a nightclub in the capital killed one person and injured 37 others. - AFP&nbsp;</div><div><br></div><div>bnbd24/fas</div>