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Hyderabad: Heavy rain disrupts the rescue operations at the site of the massive explosion that occurred at the Sigachi Industries Pvt Ltd., located in Sangareddy district on Monday. A devastating explosion at a chemical unit claimed 15 lives and left over several workers injured. The operations have been going on at the destruction site in Pashamylaram industrial area to rescue the trapped person working at the chemical factory during the blast. With the heavy rains, the rescue operations were disrupted. The officials said with the heavy rains, the teams faced difficulties to remove the rubble to find the trapped workers. "The rescue operations will be continued after all the trapped persons are identified." By the night, officials finally released a list stating that 149 employees were on duty at the time of the explosion. Of them, 12 had died and 34 were injured and shifted to various hospitals. However, officials were still unsure how many remained trapped under the rubble. Meanwhile, Health Minister Damodar Rajanarasimha instructed health officials to send a team of forensics to the Patancheru area hospital for the assistance for the DNA testing. Also, ten ambulances were pressed into service for the transportation of the dead bodies. The operation was going on since the morning to rescue the trapped persons, as the intensity of the blast led to the collapse of the three-storey manufacturing unit and engulfing various sections of the factory.
As many as nine people are still missing in the explosion at the Sigachi Industries' pharma plant in Pashamylaram that claimed at least 38 lives and left 35 injured, and efforts are on to trace the missing people, Superintendent of Police (SP) of this district, Paritosh Pankaj, said on Thursday. Meanwhile, the expert committee appointed by the state government to ascertain the causes and establish the sequence of events that led to the explosion is expected to visit the site on Thursday. The pa ...Read More >
Pune: Passengers on board a Goa to Pune SpiceJet flight (SG-1080) had a scare on Tuesday evening when a window panel was found dislodged while the plane was mid-air.The airline played down the incident, saying the window part that had come off was "a non-structural trim component, fitted onto the window for the purpose of shade".But a person on board the plane -- a Bombardier Q400 -- told TOI the incident triggered anxiety among the passengers. "Two to three layers of the window panel just came off," said Aatish Mishra, the passenger."There was no depressurization, but this shouldn't have happ ...Read More >
NEW DELHI, July 1 (Xinhua) -- At least 35 people were killed and over 30 others injured in a massive explosion inside a chemical factory in the southern Indian state of Telangana, officials said Tuesday. The death toll swelled due to the recovery of more bodies from the debris during the overnight rescue operation. The blast took place on Monday in the Pashamylaram industrial area of Patancheru, Sangareddy district, about 48 km northwest of Hyderabad, the capital city of Telangana. According to officials, the blast took place around 9:48 a.m. (local time) on Monday in the microcrystalline c ...Read More >
Hyderabad: Police on Thursday barricaded the stretch leading to the pharma factory of Sigachi Industries after Ramdas, the father of a 20-year-old Justine, attempted suicide in protest against security agencies refusing to let him enter the blast site to search for his son, who remained untraceable for the last four days. Relatives of several workers, who were at the factory during the Monday explosion, have been coming to the blast site in the hope of finding out about their family members. However, the police refused to allow both the relatives of the victims as well as media personnel to e ...Read More >