Mon, May 12 06:49 PM
Nagpur, May 12 (IANS) Eight people, including a woman, were killed and 15 others injured in an accidental detonator explosion in a stone crusher at Umred near here Monday, the police said.
The blast occurred at noon when the workers of SMS Thresher Co were off-loading and checking detonators from a supply truck that just arrived with the goods, the police said.
"A woman living in a hut in the factory premises was cooking food on a hearth when the detonators were being off-loaded. The blast was triggered apparently by some sparks from the hearth," sub-divisional police officer Ramesh Ghodam told IANS.
Superintendent of Police (SP) Yashasvi Yadav and additional SP Sandip Karnik visited the site in the afternoon and a bomb detection and disposal squad was rushed in the evening, Ghodam said.
The injured have been admitted to the Medical College Hospital in Nagpur, he added.
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