{"id":7543,"date":"2024-08-22T12:44:07","date_gmt":"2024-08-22T06:59:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/?p=7543"},"modified":"2024-08-22T12:44:07","modified_gmt":"2024-08-22T06:59:07","slug":"death-toll-rises-to-17-in-reactor-blast-at-andhras-anakapalli","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/death-toll-rises-to-17-in-reactor-blast-at-andhras-anakapalli\/","title":{"rendered":"Death toll rises to 17 in reactor blast at Andhra&#8217;s Anakapalli"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p>The death toll rose to 17 on Thursday after a reactor blast in a pharma company in the Special Economic Zone (SEZ) at Atchutapuram in Andhra Pradesh&#8217;s Anakapalli.<\/p>\n<p>Anakapalli District Collector Vijaya Krishnan confirmed the deaths on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>The incident happened after a 500-kilo-litre capacitor reactor exploded at a pharma company with around 200 workers still working at the time.<\/p>\n<p>Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister N Chandrababu Naidu has ordered a high-level inquiry into the incident. The Chief Minister is expected to visit the family of the deceased and injured on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier, Prime Minister Narendra Modi offered condolences and said that he was &#8220;pained&#8221; by the loss of lives in the mishap. The Prime Minister has announced an ex-gratia of Rs 2 lakh to the next of kin of the deceased, as per the PMO.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Pained by the loss of lives due to a mishap at a factory in Anakapalle. Condolences to those who lost their near and dear ones. May the injured recover soon. An ex-gratia of Rs 2 lakhs from PMNRF would be given to the next of kin of each deceased. The injured would be given Rs 50,000,&#8221; PMO mentioned in a post on X.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The death toll rose to 17 on Thursday after a reactor blast in a pharma company in the Special Economic Zone (SEZ) at Atchutapuram in Andhra Pradesh&#8217;s Anakapalli. Anakapalli District Collector Vijaya Krishnan confirmed the deaths on Thursday. The incident happened after a 500-kilo-litre capacitor reactor exploded at a pharma company with around 200 workers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7544,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7543","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\/7543"}],"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=7543"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7543\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7545,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7543\/revisions\/7545"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7544"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nepalsamaj.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}