{"id":332431,"date":"2021-06-07T22:53:55","date_gmt":"2021-06-08T04:23:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/?p=332431"},"modified":"2021-06-07T22:56:01","modified_gmt":"2021-06-08T04:26:01","slug":"at-least-18-killed-in-massive-fire-in-pune-chemical-factory","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/at-least-18-killed-in-massive-fire-in-pune-chemical-factory\/","title":{"rendered":"At least 18 killed in fire in Pune Chemical factory"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr\" data-offset-key=\"52a0u-0-0\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-332432\" src=\"http:\/\/tehelka.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/download-1-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"284\" height=\"177\" \/><\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"e83f2\" data-offset-key=\"dbg6f-0-0\">\n<div class=\"public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr\" data-offset-key=\"dbg6f-0-0\"><span class=\"hardreadability\"><span data-offset-key=\"dbg6f-0-0\">Around 18 people died in\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span class=\"hardreadability\"><span data-offset-key=\"dbg6f-0-0\">massive fire broke out\u00a0<\/span><\/span><span class=\"hardreadability\"><span data-offset-key=\"dbg6f-0-0\">in the sanitizer manufacturing factory in<\/span><\/span>\u00a0Maharashtra\u2019s Pune on Monday, 7 June.<\/div>\n<div data-offset-key=\"dbg6f-0-0\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"e83f2\" data-offset-key=\"2u8jd-0-0\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"e83f2\" data-offset-key=\"6mn9f-0-0\">\n<div class=\"public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr\" data-offset-key=\"6mn9f-0-0\"><span class=\"hardreadability\"><span data-offset-key=\"6mn9f-0-0\">The incident happened in Pirangut town of Pune at 3:45 pm, when around 37 employees had been working inside the unit<\/span><\/span><span data-offset-key=\"6mn9f-1-0\">.\u00a0 Around 20 workers <\/span><span class=\"passivevoice\"><span data-offset-key=\"6mn9f-2-0\">were rescued and s<\/span><\/span>earch for missing workers is ongoing.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"e83f2\" data-offset-key=\"abg4v-0-0\">\n<div class=\"public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr\" data-offset-key=\"abg4v-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"abg4v-0-0\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"e83f2\" data-offset-key=\"eb0ha-0-0\">\n<div class=\"public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr\" data-offset-key=\"eb0ha-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"5s9fs-0-0\">According to the sources \u201cThe fire broke out due to a spark in the packaging section. As there was plastic all around, so it spread <\/span><span class=\"adverb\"><span data-offset-key=\"5s9fs-1-0\">rapidly<\/span><\/span><span data-offset-key=\"5s9fs-2-0\">.\u201d Authorities had to break the walls of the premises to rescue the trapped civilians.\u00a0Most of the dead were residents of Mulshi taluka.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"e83f2\" data-offset-key=\"11o4v-0-0\">\n<div class=\"public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr\" data-offset-key=\"11o4v-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"11o4v-0-0\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"e83f2\" data-offset-key=\"6ig6s-0-0\">\n<div class=\"public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr\" data-offset-key=\"6ig6s-0-0\"><span data-offset-key=\"6ig6s-0-0\">\u00a0The Deputy Chief Minister and district<\/span><span class=\"veryhardreadability\"><span data-offset-key=\"6ig6s-1-0\">\u00a0guardian minister Ajit Pawar said the state government will pay Rs 5 lakh each to the victims\u2019 families<\/span><\/span><span data-offset-key=\"6ig6s-2-0\">.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"\" data-block=\"true\" data-editor=\"e83f2\" data-offset-key=\"flno7-0-0\">\n<div data-offset-key=\"flno7-0-0\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"public-DraftStyleDefault-block public-DraftStyleDefault-ltr\" data-offset-key=\"flno7-0-0\"><span class=\"veryhardreadability\"><span data-offset-key=\"c813s-0-0\">Meanwhile, Pune district collector Rajesh Deshmukh ordered an investigation into the incident and said, \u201cWe <\/span><\/span><span class=\"complexword\"><span data-offset-key=\"c813s-1-0\">shall<\/span><\/span><span class=\"veryhardreadability\"><span data-offset-key=\"c813s-2-0\"> wait for the enquiry panel\u2019s preliminary report before further action<\/span><\/span><span data-offset-key=\"c813s-3-0\">.\u201d For now, a case of accidental death has <\/span><span class=\"passivevoice\"><span data-offset-key=\"c813s-4-0\">been registered<\/span><\/span><span data-offset-key=\"c813s-5-0\">.<\/span><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Around 18 people died in\u00a0massive fire broke out\u00a0in the sanitizer manufacturing factory in\u00a0Maharashtra\u2019s Pune on Monday, 7 June. The incident happened in Pirangut town of Pune at 3:45 pm, when around 37 employees had been working inside the unit.\u00a0 Around 20 workers were rescued and search for missing workers is ongoing. \u00a0 According to the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":59,"featured_media":332432,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[56,2100],"tags":[154,14348,14349],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332431"}],"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=332431"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332431\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":332434,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332431\/revisions\/332434"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/332432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332431"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332431"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tehelka.com\/rest-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332431"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}