By Shakir Husain
NEW DELHI, Dec 27 (NNN-Bernama) — Seven workers were killed and many injured in a boiler blast in a food processing plant in the east Indian state of Bihar.
Their bodies were pulled out of the plant’s debris after the explosion in an industrial area in Muzaffarpur, 75 km from the state capital Patna, on Sunday, local media reported.
Another seven people were injured and admitted to hospital.
“Normally 300 people work in two shifts in the factory, but only around 30 people were present at the time of the blast because it is a Sunday. A piece of iron struck me in the head after the blast. I ran out and saw everything was destroyed,” one survivor told a newspaper.
The state government has ordered an investigation to find out the cause of the blast.
— NNN-BERNAMA
