Mangaluru: Huge fire breaks out after explosion at MSEZ; no casualties reported
Mangaluru: A fire broke out on Saturday afternoon at a specialty chemicals manufacturing unit in Mangalore Special Economic Zone (MSEZ).
According to the reports, a loud explosion was heard by people on Saturday afternoon after which the fire broke out in Catasynth Speciality Chemicals in MSEZ. Catasynth Specialty Chemicals is a subsidiary of Anthea Group.
Quoting the manager of the manufacturing unit, Mangaluru City Police said there are no casualties due to the fire accident as of now. Since the operations to extinguish the fire are still on, it is difficult to estimate the loss at this juncture, they said. The cause of the fire is yet to be ascertained.
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11 more bodies retrieved from Arunachal accident site
Itanagar (PTI): Eleven more bodies were retrieved on Saturday from the deep gorge in Arunachal Pradesh's Anjaw district, where a mini-truck on which 22 labourers from Assam were travelling fell, an official said.
With this, 17 bodies have been recovered from the accident site, Anjaw's deputy commissioner Milo Kojin said.
He said three more bodies will be brought out on Sunday.
The operation, being conducted by a joint team of the NDRF and Army, resumed at 6 am.
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"The retrieval process was extremely difficult because of the treacherous terrain, and the gorge is very deep," Kojin said.
The operation was suspended around 4 pm due to low visibility and will be resumed on Sunday morning, he said.
"One person is still missing, and a search operation will be carried out tomorrow," he added.
The accident happened on the evening of December 8, around 40 km from Hayuliang towards Chaglagam in the district. On the evening of December 10, one survivor managed to climb out of the gorge and reach a nearby Border Roads Task Force (BRTF) labour camp, following which the authorities were alerted.
Six bodies were recovered from the gorge on Friday and handed over to their families on Saturday.
