Today, October 19, 2016 at 12:30 p.m. divers found a deceased person in the basin of the north harbor at BASF in Ludwigshafen. This was announced by the district attorney of Frankenthal/Palatinate and the Police Headquarters of Rheinpfalz. Police divers and divers from the Ludwigshafen and Mannheim fire departments were searching for a person still missing after the fire that occurred in the northern part of the BASF site on October 17. The person has not yet been identified. "Unfortunately what we worst feared seems to have come true and we now have a third death to mourn. Our thoughts are with the families and the injured. Today at BASF, all employees held a minute of silence to remember the victims," says Margret Suckale, member of the Board of Executive Directors of BASF SE.

BASF will continue to support the relevant authorities as best as possible during the investigation of the cause of the accident.

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