Newburyport explosion leaves one worker missing at pharmaceutical manufacturing company

NEWBURYPORT - A worker is missing after an explosion at a chemical facility in Newburyport early Thursday morning. Firefighters were called to Seqens, a pharmaceutical manufacturing company, on Opportunity Way just before 1 a.m. When they arrived, they found an industrial-sized vat that had been inside the building was now about 30 feet away in a parking lot. The fire department said there were five workers in the building at the time of the explosion. Four were taken to a hospital, treated and released. The fifth worker has not been...