At least six people were killed and 29 more injured in an explosion and a subsequent gas pipeline leak on Thursday at a government-run steel plant in central India, a plant spokesman said.
The accident happened in Bhilai steel plant in Chhattisgarh state, 35 kilometers (20 miles) west of Raipur, the state capital.
Twenty workers were hospitalized, six of them with serious injuries, said Vijay Kumar Mehral, a spokesman for the steel plant. Nine workers with minor injuries were allowed to go home after medical treatment, he told reporters. Ver más