Death toll rises to 17 in blast at Indian pharmaceutical factory
India's southern state of Andhra Pradesh wrapped up rescue efforts on Thursday at a pharmaceutical manufacturing plant where an explosion the previous day killed 17 people and injured nearly 40, a senior state official said.
The state's worst such incident in recent years, Wednesday's blast took place at the 40-acre (16-hectare) unit of privately held Escientia Advanced Sciences in the Anakapalli district.
Nearly 40 people were injured and rescue operations had been completed, the official, Industries Secretary N. Yuvaraj, told Reuters.
Officials said they were scanning closed-circuit television footage and questioning the injured to decide if human error was responsible for the blast.
'Preliminary investigation shows ... there was some vapour leak that led to chemical reactions, which caused the explosion,' added Yuvaraj, who identified the solvent involved as methyl tert-butyl ether.
In a post on X, Prime Minister Narendra Modi offered condolences to the relatives of the dead.
Reuters
India's southern state of Andhra Pradesh wrapped up rescue efforts on Thursday at a pharmaceutical manufacturing plant where an explosion the previous day killed 17 people and injured nearly 40, a senior state official said.
The state's worst such incident in recent years, Wednesday's blast took place at the 40-acre (16-hectare) unit of privately held Escientia Advanced Sciences in the Anakapalli district.
Nearly 40 people were injured and rescue operations had been completed, the official, Industries Secretary N. Yuvaraj, told Reuters.
Officials said they were scanning closed-circuit television footage and questioning the injured to decide if human error was responsible for the blast.
'Preliminary investigation shows ... there was some vapour leak that led to chemical reactions, which caused the explosion,' added Yuvaraj, who identified the solvent involved as methyl tert-butyl ether.
In a post on X, Prime Minister Narendra Modi offered condolences to the relatives of the dead.
Reuters
India's southern state of Andhra Pradesh wrapped up rescue efforts on Thursday at a pharmaceutical manufacturing plant where an explosion the previous day killed 17 people and injured nearly 40, a senior state official said.
The state's worst such incident in recent years, Wednesday's blast took place at the 40-acre (16-hectare) unit of privately held Escientia Advanced Sciences in the Anakapalli district.
Nearly 40 people were injured and rescue operations had been completed, the official, Industries Secretary N. Yuvaraj, told Reuters.
Officials said they were scanning closed-circuit television footage and questioning the injured to decide if human error was responsible for the blast.
'Preliminary investigation shows ... there was some vapour leak that led to chemical reactions, which caused the explosion,' added Yuvaraj, who identified the solvent involved as methyl tert-butyl ether.
In a post on X, Prime Minister Narendra Modi offered condolences to the relatives of the dead.
Reuters
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Death toll rises to 17 in blast at Indian pharmaceutical factory
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