{"id":318764,"date":"2020-01-11T17:38:55","date_gmt":"2020-01-11T17:38:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=318764"},"modified":"2020-01-11T17:38:55","modified_gmt":"2020-01-11T17:38:55","slug":"eight-killed-in-blast-at-chemical-factory-near-mumbai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/eight-killed-in-blast-at-chemical-factory-near-mumbai\/","title":{"rendered":"Eight killed in blast at chemical factory near Mumbai"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-304184 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/lynch-.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1200\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/lynch-.jpg 1200w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/lynch--300x150.jpg 300w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/lynch--768x384.jpg 768w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/lynch--1024x512.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/lynch--696x348.jpg 696w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/lynch--1068x534.jpg 1068w, https:\/\/tehelka.com\/media\/2018\/10\/lynch--840x420.jpg 840w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/>At least eight persons were killed and several others were injured on Saturday in a massive blast at a chemical factory at Boisar in Maharashtra&#8217;s Palghar district, nearly 100 km from Mumbai, officials said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The police and the fire service officials were rushed to the spot and launched a search and rescue operation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The under-construction plant of Ank Pharma is located in a Maharashtra Industrial Development Corporation (MIDC) area at Kolwade village.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The cause of the explosion is not yet known.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: 'times new roman', times, serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Further details are awaited.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At least eight persons were killed and several others were injured on Saturday in a massive blast at a chemical factory at Boisar in Maharashtra&#8217;s Palghar district, nearly 100 km from Mumbai, officials said. The police and the fire service officials were rushed to the spot and launched a search and rescue operation. The under-construction [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":304184,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[2100,2014,2026],"tags":[12351,1467],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318764"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/59"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=318764"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318764\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":318765,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318764\/revisions\/318765"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/304184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318764"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318764"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318764"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}