Factory boiler blast kills 6 in eastern India, injures 6

PATNA, India — A mill boiler exploded successful eastbound India connected Sunday, sidesplitting astatine slightest six workers and injuring six others, constabulary said.

Rescuers were looking for immoderate workers who whitethorn beryllium trapped successful the rubble of the mill that produced nutrient snacks successful an concern country 95 kilometers (60 miles) northbound of Patna, the Bihar authorities capital.

The origin of the blast successful Muzaffarpur was being investigated, said constabulary serviceman Ram Naresh Paswan. He said the decease toll was apt to emergence arsenic 4 of the injured were critical.

Panic gripped the country arsenic the almighty detonation shook and damaged homes and factories successful the Bela concern area, media reports said.

Poor information standards are a predominant origin of fires and explosions successful India.

Last year, a large occurrence and a almighty blast rocked a warehouse storing chemicals, sidesplitting 12 radical adjacent Ahmedabad successful occidental Gujarat state.