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April 30, 2012

4 burnt alive, several hurt in Indo-Swift factory fire in Lalru


LALRU(SAS NAGAR) - Four people were burnt alive and several others injured in a major fire caused by a boiler blast in a chemical factory near Lalru in this subdivision of Mohali district today.
Police said the fire started in the Dashmesh Medicare factory this morning after a boiler exploded in a reacter on the first floor of the building. Several fire tenders, which were pressed into service, battled for many hours to extiguish the blaze.
The bodies of four people, who were burnt alive in the fire were taken out of the debris. The deceased were yet to be identified. Two persons were still stated to be missing from the factory premises. Several people who sustained burn injuries in the fire were taken to local civil hospital, various private hospitals in the town and Government Medical College hospital in Sector 32 in Chandigarh.

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