Explosives Factory Blast in India Kills 17

ByThe State Signal Newsdesk

INDIA – An explosives factory blast in India’s Maharashtra state killed at least 17 people, according to authorities on Sunday.

The incident happened in Raulgaon village in the state’s Nagpur district and “rescue operations have been accelerated,” the state’s chief minister, Devendra Fadnavis, wrote on US social media company X.

He said 18 people were also injured and were promptly shifted to Nagpur.

“Orders have been issued for a thorough investigation into this incident,” he said.

This is the second major incident in India in the last 24 hours. On Friday, 21 people died after an explosion in a firecracker manufacturing unit in the southern state of Andhra Pradesh.

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