Vishakhapatnam Fire

Nearly 36 hours after a major fire broke out at a biofuel plant near Visakhapatnam, the blaze is yet to be out. Officials said the fire could burn on till Thursday noon. So far, 40 fire engines - including 20 from the Navy - have been deployed to control the blaze and more than 9,000 litres of foam have been used.

At least five workers, mostly women, were killed and nine others were injured in an explosion and subsequent blaze at a firecracker manufacturing unit in a village of Andhra Pradesh's Visakhapatnam district on Sunday, police said.

A fire broke out late on Thursday at state-run refiner Hindustan Petroleum Corp Limited's Visakhapatnam refinery on the east coast, said officials at the unit.

Even as Visakhapatnam has emerged as the health hub of the north coastal Andhra and neighbouring Odisha and Chhattisgarh, fire safety arrangements continue to be poor at a majority of the hospitals in the city, ringing alarm bells for the patients and their families.

Nearly 36 hours after a major fire broke out at a biofuel plant near Visakhapatnam, the blaze is yet to be out. Officials said the fire could burn on till Thursday noon. So far, 40 fire engines - including 20 from the Navy - have been deployed to control the blaze and more than 9,000 litres of foam have been used.

At least five workers, mostly women, were killed and nine others were injured in an explosion and subsequent blaze at a firecracker manufacturing unit in a village of Andhra Pradesh's Visakhapatnam district on Sunday, police said.

A fire broke out late on Thursday at state-run refiner Hindustan Petroleum Corp Limited's Visakhapatnam refinery on the east coast, said officials at the unit.

Even as Visakhapatnam has emerged as the health hub of the north coastal Andhra and neighbouring Odisha and Chhattisgarh, fire safety arrangements continue to be poor at a majority of the hospitals in the city, ringing alarm bells for the patients and their families.