{"id":25646,"date":"2025-06-30T20:26:58","date_gmt":"2025-06-30T14:41:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=25646"},"modified":"2025-06-30T20:26:58","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T14:41:58","slug":"india-chemical-factory-blast-kills-at-least-12","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/india-chemical-factory-blast-kills-at-least-12\/","title":{"rendered":"India chemical factory blast kills at least 12"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>A powerful explosion at an Indian chemical factory killed at least 12 people and injured several others on Monday, turning chunks of the building into rubble, a fire officer said.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We have recovered 12 bodies so far,&#8221; said B Nagehswara Rao, district fire official at the site of the blast in Sangareddy in India&#8217;s southern Telangana state.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are searching through the debris for more bodies.&#8221;\u00a0Industrial disasters are common in India, with experts blaming poor planning and lax enforcement of safety rules.<\/p>\n<p>Footage on Indian television showed plumes of black smoke soaring into the sky.<\/p>\n<p>Telangana Chief Minister Revanth Reddy said that the &#8220;death of several people has caused great distress&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Vivek Venkataswamy, the state&#8217;s labour minister, said that those injured were being treated, including some who had been &#8220;stuck under the debris&#8221;.\u00a0Venkataswamy said the cause of the explosion was being investigated.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A powerful explosion at an Indian chemical factory killed at least 12 people and injured several others on Monday, turning chunks of the building into rubble, a fire officer said. &#8220;We have recovered 12 bodies so far,&#8221; said B Nagehswara Rao, district fire official at the site of the blast in Sangareddy in India&#8217;s southern [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":25647,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25646"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25646"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25648,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25646\/revisions\/25648"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}