Five injured as boiler explodes in sugar factory

January 14, 2017 12:50 am | Updated 12:50 am IST - Bidar:

Five workers were injured in a fire accident in the Kisan sugar factory in Mogadal village in Humnabad taluk on Friday evening.

They were taken to the district hospital in Bidar after they were treated at the community health centre in Mannaekhalli.

Officials told the police that the cause of the fire was an explosion in the boiler.

The injured include Mohammad Dastagir and Manoj Kumar from Bihar, Krishna Murthy from Puducherry, Pratap Singh from Kalaburagi, and Afroz Patel, Ghayu Mian, and Vasant Kumar from Bidar. A case has been registered at the Bemalkheda police station.

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