As per locals, the blast was so powerful that it dismembered limbs of the deceased and the injured were thrown several metres away from the site. The cracker factory was legal and had all necessary clearance from the local administration, the officials said.
The death toll in an explosion and subsequent fire in a paint factory in outer Delhi's Alipur area has climbed to 11 with four more bodies recovered from the premises, police said on Friday.
A factory fire at iPhone assembler Pegatron India was sparked by a short-circuit after an electrical switch was left on, following testing of the devices as they were being put together, two sources briefed on the matter told Reuters. The lapse at key Apple supplier Pegatron's only factory in India, located in the southern state of Tamil Nadu, has cost three straight days of lost production, with no clarity on when operations might resume. After Reuters sent queries to Pegatron for this report, the firm told the Taiwan stock exchange on Wednesday that "a small switchboard experienced an accident" at the factory on Sunday, but did not provide further details.
New Delhi, Aug 9 (IANS) Nine people, including two Delhi Police constables, were injured in a fire that broke out at a factory in the national capital's Mayapuri area on Wednesday, a fire department official said.