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 Haiti&rsquo;s Minister of Foreign Affairs
confirmed to reporters today that seven Haitians were killed in an explosion at a plant in southern Brazil
It&rsquo;s reported that earlier this week
a grain silo explosion at the C.Vale agricultural cooperative in Brazil&rsquo;s southern state of Paran&aacute; killed at least eight people  &ndash; seven of them Haitians
the explosion happened in the early evening on Wednesday and firefighters and rescue teams worked through the night and the next day to provide assistance and recover victims
the victims were in a tunnel that links different parts of the silo
The smoke caused by the fire was visible from several kilometers away and the windows of the houses near the cooperative were shattered
The cause of the blast has not yet been determined
Vale is the second largest agro-industrial cereal cooperative in Brazil
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