Confirmed death toll climbs to 8 in Longview paper mill disaster ^10.9%

KUOW - By Courtney Sherwood (OPB) - 5/28/2026, 11:52 PM

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Crews recovered six bodies from a Longview paper mill Thursday as they continued the response to a massive chemical tank rupture earlier this week. That brings the confirmed death toll from the Tuesday disaster at the Nippon Dynawave Packaging Company to eight, including two people who were declared dead at local hospitals. Three more... more