Pune: At least eighteen personnel of a chemical manufacturing facility in Maharashtra’s Pune have died and numerous are lacking as a huge hearthplace broke out withinside the sanitiser-production unit of the corporation on Monday.
Prime Minister Narendra Modi has condoled the deaths of the employees. “Pained via way of means of the lack of lives because of a hearthplace at a manufacturing facility in Pune, Maharashtra. Condolences to the bereaved families,” he tweeted.
Pained via way of means of the lack of lives because of a hearthplace at a manufacturing facility in Pune, Maharashtra. Condolences to the bereaved families.
According to information business enterprise PTI, as a minimum six hearthplace engines have been rushed to the plant of SVS Aqua Technologies in Pune.
The nearby hearthplace branch informed NDTV that 37 personnel have been operating in the unit whilst the hearthplace broke out; 20 of them have been rescued.
In visuals, a thick plume of black smoke is visible over the campus of the sanitiser corporation. People run in the direction of protection close to the gate, even as others stand nevertheless to observe the hearthplace.
The hearthplace began out all through packing of plastic substances withinside the premises, the hearthplace branch said.
“Due to a few spark at the (packaging) section, the hearthplace broke out and as there has been plastic around, so it unfold rapidly,” an professional informed PTI.
The hearthplace is now beneathneath manage and look for the lacking employees is underway, officers said.