Following the incident, the firefighters rushed to the spot to douse the flame. The cause of the fire is yet to be ascertained.
The blaze occurred in a unit located in the Light Industrial Area under Jamul police station limits at around 7 pm on Monday. Following the incident, at least three fire tenders were rushed to the site to douse the flame.
Mumbai fire: The incident was reported from the Navi Mumbai area on Thursday morning. Following the incident, fire tenders were rushed to the spot to douse the fame.
It is reported that approximately 150 employees were working at the chemical factory in Surat late on Wednesday night. Around 25 employees sustained injuries in the accident, and seven employees were reported missing.
"So far, 13 people have been killed, while 20 are injured. The injured are undergoing treatment in various hospitals in Delhi, Noida, Ghaziabad and Meerut," Hapur SP said.
Commenting on the incident, Eluru SP Rahul Dev Sharma said the blaze was reported due to a leakage of nitric acid, monomethyl at the factory.
Bharuch Superintendent of Police (SP) Leena Patil said that the blast occurred at the reactor plant of Om Organics firm and a probe over negligence, if any, is being done.
She said 12 of the bodies had been identified and were taken away by relatives, while 4 could not be identified immediately.
At least 12 workers were killed and a dozen others were missing after a major fire broke out at a chemical company located in an industrial area in Pune district on Monday, officials said.
A massive fire broke out late Thursday night at a chemical factory in Jammu and Kashmir's Udhampur.
A fire broke out at a chemical factory at a village in Ambernath of Maharashtra's Thane district in the early hours of Saturday and no casualties were reported in the incident, a civic official said.
At least five people were killed and several were injured in a blast at a chemical factory in Maharashtra's Ratnagiri district on Saturday.
Eight people were injured in a fire accident in a chemical factory in Sangareddy district, neighbouring Hyderabad, on Saturday.
At least two people were killed and four others were killed in a blast at a chemical factory in Thane's Bhiwandi on Wednesday night.
A fire broke out at a factory in Gujarat on Wednesday. According to the details, the fire was reported from a chemical factory in Tulip Estate in Ahmedabad city.
A massive fire broke out at a chemical factory located in the Bantupalli industrial area in the Sangareddy district of Telangana.
Five workers of a chemical factory were killed and 57 more were injured on Wednesday, in a massive fire triggered by an explosion in a boiler at Dahej in Bharuch district of Gujarat.
A massive fire broke out at a chemical factory in Tarapur, Palghar district of Maharashtra on Tuesday.
The blast, which took place around 7.20 pm, which took place during the testing of some chemicals around 7.20 pm, was so huge that it was heard within a 15-km radius, and window panes of some houses in the surrounding area shattered, a police official said.
The blast took place in PI Industries Limited factory, which manufactures the base for fertilisers, situated in Sarod village of Jambusar taluka in Bharuch, said an official from Vedaj police station.
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