1 killed, 11 injured in blast at private power plant in MP

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Press Trust of India Anuppur (MP)
Last Updated : May 17 2016 | 1:57 PM IST
An engineer was killed and 11 workers sustained burn injuries in a blast in the boiler plant of a private power company here, an official said today.
The blast occurred during routine inspection of boilers at unit-2 of the power plant in Anuppur district's Jaithari sub-division at around 7.50 PM yesterday, he said.
The company's senior engineer, identified as Prafulla Kumar Jha (49), sustained critical burn injuries. He succumbed to his injuries enroute to district hospital, Sub-Divisional Magistrate (SDM) R V Dwivedi said today.
Among the 11 injured, the condition of three is serious. All of them have been admitted to a private hospital in Chhattisgarh's Bilaspur district, he said.
Anuppur Collector N S Parmar and Superintendent of Police Anurag Sharma visited the spot this morning to take stock of the situation and ordered a magisterial probe into the incident.
Further probe is on in the matter, Dwivedi added.
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First Published: May 17 2016 | 1:57 PM IST

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