{"id":200996,"date":"2025-06-26T19:58:53","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T17:58:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/tunisia\/tunisia-fire-erupts-in-plastic-factory-in-medjez-el-bab-beja\/"},"modified":"2025-06-26T19:58:53","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T17:58:53","slug":"tunisia-fire-erupts-in-plastic-factory-in-medjez-el-bab-beja","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/north-africa\/tunisia\/tunisia-fire-erupts-in-plastic-factory-in-medjez-el-bab-beja\/","title":{"rendered":"Tunisia: Fire Erupts in Plastic Factory in Medjez El Bab, Beja"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"25\">Beja \u2014 A fire broke out on Wednesday evening at a plastic manufacturing unit located in the industrial zone of Medjez El Bab in the B\u00e9ja governorate.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"20\">The blaze engulfed two large warehouses used for storing plastic materials and school supplies, a Civil Protection spokesperson told TAP.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"24\">Firefighting efforts continued until 7 a.m. on Thursday, with officials confirming that the fire was brought under control and cooling operations are currently underway.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">According to the same source,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202506260510.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 North Africa <a title=\"Tunisia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/north-africa\/tunisia\/\">Tunisia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beja \u2014 A fire broke out on Wednesday evening at a plastic manufacturing unit located in the industrial zone of Medjez El Bab in the B\u00e9ja governorate. The blaze engulfed two large warehouses used for storing plastic materials and school supplies, a Civil Protection spokesperson told TAP. Firefighting efforts continued until 7 a.m. on Thursday, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":200997,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[642],"tags":[258,256,30563,26400,9231,7329,6600,31828,257,9933,254,4703,653],"class_list":["post-200996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tunisia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-bab","tag-beja","tag-erupts","tag-factory","tag-fire","tag-medjez","tag-news","tag-plastic","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tunisia","tag-tunisia-news"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=200996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/200996\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/200997"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=200996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=200996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=200996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}