Puducherry: Fire accident at pharma factory, 14 injured
Puducherry: Fourteen workers were injured in a fire accident at a pharma factory in neighbouring Kalapet on Sunday night, police said.
Eleven of the workers were rushed to a super specialty hospital in Chennai while the remaining three were admitted to a local hospital, police added.
Fire fighting units were rushed from several areas in Puducherry to bring the fire under control, police said.
Lt Governor Tamilisai Soundararajan said in a release on Sunday that a detailed probe would be conducted to identify the cause of the fire. Official sources said that the Inspector of Factories of Puducherry government issued a notice on Sunday to the factory prohibiting with immediate effect ''any further use of the pharma and packaging blocks''.
Meanwhile, the residents of villages nearby held a demonstration at the factory protesting against the ''lack of safety measures'', as they said that such accidents were taking place quite often, posing a threat to the safety of the villagers.
Member of Parliament (Rajya Sabha) from Puducherry S Selvaganapathy (BJP) and the legislator from Kalapet P M L Kalyanasundaram (BJP) visited the factory and pacified the agitating villagers. They also visited the hospital where workers were undergoing treatment for their injuries.
Medical Dialogues team had earlier reported that in a fire incident at a pharmaceutical company in Maharashtra's Raigad district, four persons had been killed, seven injured, and a search was underway for tracing seven missing individuals.
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