Toll in death as Explosion in Sigachi Pharma Factory Climbing 36 in Telangana on Tuesday, reported the disappearance of family members and relatives of those when the blast spent worrying hours on Monday, expecting some news about his loved ones.
25 -year -old Sajana, one of them, is a relative of Ramesh who has been missing since the explosion. “No one is able to tell us whether he is alive or dead. We are waiting for hours to receive some news,” he told The Indian ExpressRamesh was working in the factory for the last five years.
In Sangredi’s government hospital, another missing worker, a family member of Akhilesh Kumar, said, “It has been only three months to join the work. He went to this factory as they were paying them well. We are eagerly waiting for some news.”
While the death toll was 14 on Monday night 14, more bodies were recovered from Tuesday on Tuesday as rescue operations went ahead. Due to the explosion, the huge parts of the three -storey factory were reduced into the rubble.
The Chief Minister of Telangana, a Revanath Reddy, who visited the site on Tuesday morning, announced a compensation of Rs 1 crore to be paid jointly by the Sigachi and the state government, which included family members of each of the dead. A compensation of Rs 10 lakh will be given to those people seriously injured and Rs 5 lakh will be given to partially burning people. According to rescue teams, many people suffered up to 50% burning injuries.
The Chief Minister, who met the family members of the deceased, said that inspection would be conducted in various industrial units to investigate whether they have complied with safety standards. “A report will be submitted and action will be taken against those responsible for the accident,” Reddy said.
According to the labor department officials, the factory in which the explosion occurred was last inspected in December 2024. “At the time of inspection, we did not find any mistake in the convenience. He had met all the criteria,” B. Raja Gopal Rao, Director, said. It seems that the cause of the explosion is the reason for the construction of pressure inside the spray dior which was being operated in the ground floor of the factory.
Sigachi chemicals form MCC or microcystline cellulose from wooden pulp. MCC is used in the manufacture of pharmaceutical capsules.
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A case has been registered against the company management by the Telangana police, which is not for murder, not for murder and voluntarily suffered serious injuries.
In the factory, the earth was used to remove the debris, in addition to the shovels used by the state disaster response force rescue team. In a government facility in Patancheru, not far from the site, a crowd of relatives searched for missing people.
While 11 people have been declared missing, many people told The Indian Express That they are still oscillating between hope and disappointment as 25 bodies are still being identified. “We have given our blood for testing. We don’t know when the results will come,” Ram said, a relative of Outlal who missing is among those missing.
The district administration has collected blood samples from several people to identify the victims through DNA matches.
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Another missing person – Lata, wife of Bhimrao, said: “We are told that he is only injured and ICU. But no one has let us go inside the hospital and no one has identified him.” The couple was recently blessed with a child.
Relatives of some of those working in the factory have also started coming from other states including Bihar and Jharkhand.
At the time of the explosion, according to officials, 143 people were on the site. Among them, 60 people are safely marked. More than 34 were injured. They are undergoing treatment in various hospitals nearby.
A family member of Venkatesh, at Dhurwa Hospital in Patancheru, Ramesh, who is one of the hospitalized people, said, “Doctors have told us that many people have breathed poisonous smoke from the accident site. It will take days for repetition.”
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State government officials said that according to the instructions of the Chief Minister, they have arranged for treatment of all the injured persons, even though the cost.
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