At least 16 dead, 25 injured in a fire at firecracker factory in south India

September 30th, 2009 AMRITSAR - At least two people were injured and property worth millions of rupees was damaged when a powerful explosion rocked the boiler of a ghee manufacturing factory here Wednesday. The factory is located in Gumtala area of the city.

September 12th, 2009 NEW DELHI - A candle-making factory was razed to the ground following a major fire broke out in Naraina Industrial area here on Saturday. The fire broke out past -midnight.

August 25th, 2009 Fire at Detroit chemical factory is extinguishedDETROIT — Authorities say firefighters have put out the blaze at a Detroit chemical factory that had forced employees and nearby businesses to evacuate. Fire officials say no one was injured in the fire at Diversified Chemical Technologies Inc.

July 17th, 2009 2 injured in an explosion at a Chicago factoryCHICAGO — Two people have been injured in an explosion at a factory in Chicago that sent bricks and debris flying hundreds of feet in the air. Fire Department spokesman Larry Langford says the 9 a.m.

July 17th, 2009 Police: 1 injured in explosion at Chicago factoryCHICAGO — Police say at least one person has been injured in an explosion at a factory on the west side of Chicago. Police Officer Robert Perez says the explosion happened just before 9 a.m.

July 5th, 2009 SINGRAULI - At least five people were feared dead and around 100 injured late Sunday when multiple blasts triggered massive fire in two explosive factories in an industrial area of this Madhya Pradesh district, police and eyewitnesses said. The death toll may mount as the two factories in the Bairhan Industrial Area of Singrauli were reduced to rubble, according to police.

June 23rd, 2009 GURGAON - The Adidas factory on Delhi-Gurgaon National Highway-8 was gutted in a fire Tuesday. There were no casualties, a fire official said.

June 21st, 2009 HEFEI - At least 16 people were killed and 43 injured in a blast Sunday at a factory in China's Anhui province, an official said. The explosion ripped through the workshop of Jingxin Mining Ltd.

June 7th, 2009 NEW DELHI - One person was killed and 12 others were injured when a fire broke out in a paint factory here Sunday, police said. The fire broke out after a boiler exploded in the paint factory in Okhla Phase II in south Delhi at 2 a.m.

June 4th, 2009 NALAGARH - The death toll in Wednesday's fire in a factory in this Himachal Pradesh town rose to nine as the body of an employee was recovered Thursday, police said. "This morning the body of the lone missing employee of Advantec Ltd was recovered from the debris," Sumedha Dwivedi, senior superintendent of police (Baddi), told IANS.

June 3rd, 2009 NALAGARH - Five people, including two fire brigade personnel, died in a fire that broke out due to a suspected electric short-circuit in a factory in this Himachal Pradesh town Wednesday, police said. At least four workers of the factory, which manufactures air-conditions, were missing and a police officer feared that if they were trapped inside the premises they would be dead.

June 3rd, 2009 NALAGARH - At least eight people were killed when a fire broke out in a factory in this town Wednesday, police said. The Himachal Pradesh government ordered an inquiry into the incident.

June 3rd, 2009 NALAGARH - Five people, including two fire brigade personnel, were killed in a fire that broke out in a factory in this Himachal Pradesh town Wednesday, police said. At least four workers of the factory, which made electrical appliances, were missing and a police officer feared that if they were trapped inside the premises they would be dead.

June 3rd, 2009 NALAGARH - Eight people, including three fire brigade personnel, died in a fire that broke out in a factory in this Himachal Pradesh town Wednesday, police said. One worker of the factory, which manufactures air-conditioners, is still missing and a police officer feared that if trapped inside the premises he could be dead.

January 12th, 2009 NEW DELHI - Two labourers were burnt Tuesday when a blast took place in one of the drums kept in a chemical factory in central Delhi, officials said. Minor fire broke out in the godown of the chemical factory in Khari Baoli area around 2.30 p.m.