A company spokesperson said no casualty or injury has been reported so far
As companies of methanol and xylene chemicals are located near the affected factory, authorities have shifted about 4,800 people from nearby Luvara and Lakhigam villages to safer places
The fire broke out in the Industries Department of the office in Sector 6 and was reported around 8.45 am
3,000 people evacuated after styrene leak at LG Polymers plant in Visakhapatnam; 7 fall ill after gas leak in Chhattisgarh; 8 suffer burns in TN furnace fire
India has seen some horrible accidents in the past killing scores of people
Each of these mishaps snuffed out innocent lives, often due to negligence on the part of the authorities
'We don't know what caused the fire but it has been extinguished'
My thoughts and prayers are with the injured and the families who have lost their near and dear ones, the President said