15 feared dead in factory blast
At least 15 workers were feared dead after an explosion at a gelatine manufacturing plant in western India today, a news report said.
The blast near Nasik city was so powerful that a three-floor building inside the factory complex collapsed, the Press Trust of India news agency said, quoting unnamed police officials.
The explosion happened early today, when there were about 20 workers inside the factory, which operates round the clock through three shifts, the PTI report said.
Police have so far recovered two bodies from the debris, while two injured workers were rescued and taken to a nearby hospital for treatment, it said.
Officials in Nasik, 745 miles south-west of New Delhi, could not be immediately reached for comments.
