Nine workers, including five women, died and 10 others were injured in a blaze at a fireworks-manufacturing unit in Sivakasi on Thursday, a senior police official said.
Around half a dozen Tata Steel employees and contract workers were injured following an explosion in the LD gasholder inside its factory in Jamshedpur.
Police said the explosion occurred at J D Ispat factory at Kapsi village in Nagpur due to some "technical problems" in the blast furnace.
The smoke emanating from the unit was stinking and very toxic, police said.
The incident took place at the unit, located 40 km from Nagpur, causing severe damage to the building, an official at Kondhali police station said.
The police seized a huge quantity of explosives and banned firecrackers during raids in different locations in rural West Bengal and arrested at least 100 people for their alleged involvement in running illegal manufacturing factories, a senior state police official said on Tuesday.
At least three persons died and three injured in an explosion at a scrap factory in Jaipur's Vishwakarma Industrial Area on Sunday afternoon.
Eleven people were charred to death and four others injured in an explosion in an illegal firecracker unit at Pingla in West Midnapore district.
A police team from Purba Medinipur district also visited neighbouring Odisha in search of the absconding factory owner.
The incident occurred near Sadasivpet in Medak district.
A fire, which broke out after the explosion has been controlled.
The police officials said the bombshell was an obsolete one which was manufactured in 1960s by the Indian Ordnance Factory.
According to eyewitnesses, several bodies were lying on the spot, while many people were reported missing after the explosion-cum-blaze at the factory.
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The explosion occurred when some chemicals were being mixed to produce fireworks at the unit in Acchankulam village, they said, adding the injured had been hospitalised.
Rescue operations continued through the night at the site of the incident which claimed 11 lives and left more than 200 people injured, they said.
A number of videos of the incident surfaced on social media showing the fire with intermittent explosions taking place at the site and people running helter-skelter to save themselves.
More than 200 people were engaged in the work of manufacturing firecrackers at the unit located in the Bairagarh locality on Magardha Road, on the outskirts of Harda town, when they heard the first explosion at around 11 am on Tuesday.
Teams of National Disaster Response Force were trying to find out any person still trapped under the debris, officials said.
Citing information from corporate officials, fire official Kim Jin-young stated that the nationality of the remaining deceased worker was not yet determined.
Following the Supreme Court's verdict on bulldozer action, victims of demolition drives in Uttar Pradesh are seeking compensation for their losses. The court ruled against arbitrary demolitions without prior notice, prompting victims to pursue legal action. The Uttar Pradesh government maintains that demolitions were carried out following due process and on properties built on encroached lands.
Harrowing scenes unfolded at the SEZ where the fire ripped through the pharma company. Injured workers with torn clothes and bleeding injuries were seen being shifted to hospitals in ambulances.
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Several people were feared trapped under the debris, police said, adding that the rescue operation was underway.
At least three other workers were injured in the blaze at the Modi Nagar unit which stocked highly inflammatory material.
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Five persons were killed and three others injured after an explosion occurred in an industrial unit in Sakinaka area of the city on Friday, fire brigade officials said.
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Five labourers were killed in an explosion inside a factory manufacturing electrical fuses at a village near here in the wee hours of Friday.
'As the city grows, so do its fire incidents.'
Twenty units of fire fighters were trying to douse the fire but they could not manage to douse the blaze till noon.
Rescue officials confirmed casualties in the incident, claiming to have already recovered 5 bodies from the heap of debris where the cracker manufacturing unit once stood.
Around 10 to 15 contract labourers were at the site when the incident occurred, Wardha's additional superintendent of police Nikhil Pingle said.
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A few live bombs and missile components were recovered.
The fire department said they received a call around 4.23 am about a fire in the factory at Udoh Nagar area after which seven fire tenders were rushed to the spot, the official said.
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