Explosion kills one, injures six
One person died and six others were injured in a blast at a pharma company's unit in Nagpur district. The blast occurred in a glass line reactor of the unit, the cause was not immediately known.
According to reports, a chemical slurry at approximately 125°C splashed onto six workers Eyewitness accounts suggest the explosion was triggered by a pressure build-up in one of the facility's six reactors. A senior police official stated that the explosion took place at around 11 am, killing one person and injuring half a dozen others. All the injured are undergoing treatment at hospital and one of them is in critical condition.