At least fifteen people have died after a blaze swept through a sanitizer factory in the western Indian city of Pune on Monday, police said.
Talktokemi searched for more details. “We have
recovered 15 bodies so far,” an officer in Pune’s rural police control room,
who spoke on condition of anonymity, told AFP.
“The fire
broke out around 4:15 pm at a sanitizer factory we still don’t know what
sparked the fire.”
The officer
could not say if there were any injured or missing.
The plant was
located on the outskirts of Pune in a village, the Times of India reported.
Those killed
were trapped in the factory when the fire broke out after an explosion inside a
machine, the newspaper added, citing local revenue officials.
Video footage
aired by local media showed huge plumes of smoke billowing from the top of a
building.
India is
frequently rocked by industrial disasters that experts blame on poor planning
and lax enforcement of safety rules.
Prime
Minister Narendra Modi shared his condolences, and tweeted that financial
compensation would be provided to the families of the victims as well as those
injured.
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