THE body of an unidentified man lay only metres from the deep crater where once stood a small concrete warehouse - the stench from the remains of both man and material hung heavily in the air.
He was in plain view in the middle of the road, a twisted bicycle nearby, yet rescue workers were too busy with those still alive to take him away.
Nobody knew who he was and exactly 24 hours after he was killed by the tremendous blast he was still there, cooking in the 35-degree heat.
Some good-hearted residents late yesterday afternoon took out a blanket to cover the partly burned body.
The smell of death was a sure sign that other bodies may still be under the rubble or blown to pieces by what witnesses said was an explosion like an ''atomic bomb''.
On the other side of the plant, clearance and rescue workers were still busy trying to put out pockets of fire.
