New Delhi: At least three people, including two women and a watchman, died while eight others were injured after a gas leak incident at a pharmaceutical company in Maharashtra’s Sangli on Thursday night.
Police said that the injured are undergoing treatment in the hospital, out of which the condition of one factory owner is critical.
Police suspect that some technical fault caused the reactor explosion and a team from the forensic department is at the spot to investigate the matter.
Meanwhile, in a separate incident, a massive fire broke out at a factory near Maharashtra Industrial Development Corporation (MIDC), Tarapur in Palghar district on Thursday morning.
In September this year, gas leakage was reported in a chemical company in Ambernath in Thane district.
Earlier, in May this year, 13 people were killed in a reactor explosion at a chemical factory in the Maharashtra Industrial Development Corporation (MIDC) area of Dombivali in Thane district, and then in June, a massive fire broke out in another chemical factory in its complex. Went.
