Nine employees were killed and 14 others injured Tuesday in a blast at the Bhilai Steel Plant of state-owned SAIL in Chhattisgarh's Durg district, police said.
The explosion took place around 10:30 am in a gas pipeline connected to the coke oven section of the plant in Bhilai town, around 30 km away from the state capital, Inspector General of Police (Durg Range) G P Singh told PTI.
"At least nine people were burnt to death while 14 others received injuries and most of them were said to be in a serious condition," he said.
SAIL in a statement said, "In an unfortunate incident around 10.30 am, today at SAIL Bhilai Steel Plant, there was a fire in a gas pipe line of the Coke Oven Battery Complex No 11 during a scheduled maintenance job."
Steel Minister Chaudhary Birender Singh said, "I have got the preliminary information about the blast in a coke oven at Bhilai Steel Plant (BSP)."
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