The blast created chaos at the factory. People present at the company took all affected persons to a local hospital. Police and fire brigade officials controlled the situation in the factory.
Local fire official Kim Jin-young told a televised briefing said most of the missing people were foreign nationals including Chinese. He said the mobile phone signals of the missing people were tracked to be coming from the second floor of the factory.
The explosion occurred at 1 pm on Thursday in Dhamna village. The victims were mostly working in the packaging unit. Nagpur police commissioner Ravindra Singhal confirmed the fatalities. Union Minister Nitin Gadkari expressed condolences and criticized the lack of immediate ambulance availability.
An explosion occurred due to a fire at a chemical factory in Sangareddy, Telangana.
A thick layer of black smoke was spotted in the Alipur area creating panic among locals living near the factory. The police personnel and other officials rushed to the spot.
A massive fire broke out inside a firecrackers factory located in the Bairagarh area of Harda district on February 6 morning which resulted in the death of 11 people and left 173 injured.
Delhi: A fire broke out in a factory in Nilothi village. According to Delhi fire services, no casualties have been reported yet.
Although there was no official confirmation about the fatalities, media reports cited emergency services and asserted many people were feared dead in the tragic incident.
Massive fire has broken out at a plastic factory near Goblej in Gujarat's Kheda.
An FIR has been registered under sections 286, 287, 304, 308, 337 and 338 of the IPC at the Dhaulana police station. The FIR states that firecrackers were manufactured at the factory.
The fire tenders reached the location as soon as they received the information and started dousing the fire.
According to reports, the blast took place in the boiler of MM Food factory situated at Magadi Road in the capital city.
The district's chief administrator Mostain Billah said that death toll of Thursday's factory fire has risen to 51 on Friday afternoon.
The fire broke out at multi-storey building of Shezan Juice Factory of Hashem Foods Ltd in Bhulota Karnagop area in Narayanganj around 5 p.m. and 15 units of fire services are still struggling to contain it.
One person died after a major fire broke out at an ink manufacturing unit at Turbhe in Navi Mumbai on Sunday, an official said.
A fire broke out at a manufacturing factory of medical equipment in Sahibabad Industrial Area Site 4 in Ghaziabad. At least 14 people have been so far.
A major fire broke out in a biscuit manufacturing factory at Ambernath in Maharashtra's Thane district on Thursday morning.
The death toll in the February 12 blaze that broke out in a fireworks manufacturing factory in Tamil Nadu's Virudhunagar district has gone up to 25, the district collector said.
At least 28 fire tenders were rushed to the spot to douse the fire. According to the fire department, a charred body was also found in the factory.
A woman labourer was killed and two others were injured when a boiler of a factory exploded in neighbouring Shamli district, police said on Saturday.
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