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No fewer than 17 people have been reportedly killed, leaving 34 injured with chemicals burning off their Skins in a blast that occured at Indian pharmaceutical Factory. police said Thursday.
The Hindu Newspaper disclosed that the force of the blast was so strong as it left severed body parts scattered around the factory.
The fire broke out on Wednesday afternoon at a pharmaceutical unit in Andhra Pradesh’s Anakapalli district in Indian.
Though the District police superintendent M. Deepika said “rescue operations are over” and all were accounted for, with a final toll of “17 dead and 34 injured”.
Pointing out that the investigators believe the blast was caused by a “gas leak… which eventually hit an electrical panel”.
“It was horrible, heartbreaking,” he told the paper, describing the pain people suffered as those who survived were carried to ambulances.
“They were screaming before they lost consciousness”.
Responding the Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday said he was “pained by the loss of lives”, in a post on social media, announcing compensation of $2,380 to the families of those killed.
