Nashik: Big hearth engulfs manufacturing facility after blast on New Year’s, casualties feared

By IANS

NASHIK: A deafening blast adopted by a significant hearth engulfed a manufacturing facility in Igatpuri in Maharashtra’s Nashik district on Sunday morning.

The explosion, reportedly in a boiler within the manufacturing facility, was adopted by an enormous blaze, reported round 11.30 a.m., as folks had been waking up after the New Year celebrations.

Local eyewitnesses claimed that at the very least 250 employees had been within the premises however a majority of them managed to flee to security.

However, over a dozen are nonetheless feared trapped there and efforts are on to rescue them.

Nashik Collector Gangatharan D. and Nashik Rural Superintendent of Police Sachin Patil are reviewing the scenario.

Around a dozen hearth tenders from Igatpuri and Nashik metropolis have additionally reached the spot to battle the conflagration.

Huge clouds of gray and white smoke had been seen from lengthy distances and the massive explosion shook many residents on New Year Day.

Rural Development Minister Dada Bhuse, who’s the Guardian Minister of Nashik district, has rushed to the spot, and Chief Minister Eknath Shinde is more likely to go there later this afternoon.

NASHIK: A deafening blast adopted by a significant hearth engulfed a manufacturing facility in Igatpuri in Maharashtra’s Nashik district on Sunday morning.

The explosion, reportedly in a boiler within the manufacturing facility, was adopted by an enormous blaze, reported round 11.30 a.m., as folks had been waking up after the New Year celebrations.

Local eyewitnesses claimed that at the very least 250 employees had been within the premises however a majority of them managed to flee to security.

However, over a dozen are nonetheless feared trapped there and efforts are on to rescue them.

Nashik Collector Gangatharan D. and Nashik Rural Superintendent of Police Sachin Patil are reviewing the scenario.

Around a dozen hearth tenders from Igatpuri and Nashik metropolis have additionally reached the spot to battle the conflagration.

Huge clouds of gray and white smoke had been seen from lengthy distances and the massive explosion shook many residents on New Year Day.

Rural Development Minister Dada Bhuse, who’s the Guardian Minister of Nashik district, has rushed to the spot, and Chief Minister Eknath Shinde is more likely to go there later this afternoon.