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A 43-year-old security officer has died while working at a redundant Mid Wales factory. The man, from Newtown, was found in an office at the former car components KTH factory, in Llanidloes, at about 2.45pm yesterday.


Emergency services were called to the site after receiving reports of an injured man being in the building. But a local doctor certified him dead at the scene.

The Health and Safety Executive was informed and also attended the scene.

Police today said the man, who has not yet been named, had been working alone at the site.

Detective Inspector Richard Evans, of Newtown police station, said: "The man was a security officer and was the only person working on the site. He was found by a local man."

The death is not being treated as suspicious and a post-mortem was due to be carried out at Bronglais Hospital, in Aberystwyth, this morning.

A joint police and Heath and Safety Executive investigation is continuing into his death.

The site housed former car components factory KTH until September, when it closed with 240 job losses.

Llanidloes firm Benji & Co Ltd had hoped to move onto the site but its application was turned down because it was decided the building was not structurally safe.