Five feared dead in Madhya Pradesh factory explosions

September 20th, 2009 LUCKNOW/BHOPAL - The Uttar Pradesh government Sunday asked the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to probe the mysterious death of Madhya Pradesh cadre IAS officer Madan Gopal Rusia, whose body was found on a railway track some distance from Agra railway station Sep 10. Roosia was the chief executive officer of the Bhopal Development Authority.

September 20th, 2009 ALLAHABAD - Three men were arrested with huge quantity of explosives from Shankergarh area of the Allahabad district Sunday, police said. About 400 kg of ammonium nitrate, over 400 detonators and fuse wires were seized from the possession of the three men in Shankergarh, which is on the border with Madhya Pradesh.

September 4th, 2009 Blasts kill 7 at Serbia munitions factoryBELGRADE, Serbia — A series of explosions at an underground ammunition factory in central Serbia killed at least seven people and injured 15, police said Friday. They said the explosions occurred around 10 p.m.

September 3rd, 2009 BHOPAL - Madhya Pradesh Chief Minister Shivraj Singh Chouhan Thursday expressed profound grief over the untimely demise of Andhra Pradesh Chief Minister Y.S.Rajashekhar Reddy, who was killed in a helicopter crash Wednesday. The country, including Andhra Pradesh, has lost an able administrator and a charismatic politician, Chouhan said in his message.

September 3rd, 2009 Report: blasts kill 6 at Serbia munitions factoryBELGRADE, Serbia — State TV is reporting that six people have been killed and at least 10 injured in a series of explosions at an ammunition factory in central Serbia. The report said the explosions occurred around 10 p.m.

September 3rd, 2009 Blasts kill 6 at Serbia munitions factoryBELGRADE, Serbia — A series of explosions late Thursday at an ammunition factory in central Serbia killed at least six people and injured 10, police said. They said the explosions occurred around 10 p.m.

July 6th, 2009 SINGRAULI - At least eight persons were killed and over 40 injured in blasts in two private explosive manufacturing factories in Madhya Pradesh's Singrauli district. The first blast took place at around 6:30 pm in the Ideal Explosives Industries complex.

July 5th, 2009 SINGRAULI - At least five people were feared dead and over 100 injured late Sunday when multiple blasts triggered a 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 Baliyari Industrial Area of Singrauli were reduced to rubble, according to police.

July 5th, 2009 SINGRAULI - Over 100 factory workers were injured in four blasts occurred in a detonator factory, located in Baidan Village of Madhya Pradesh's Singrauli area. The intensity of blasts was so high that its sound could be heard many kilometres from Baliyari industrial area of the village, the place of incident where Indian detonators are manufactured.

June 27th, 2009 LUCKNOW - A gangster who had 28 criminal cases pending against him was found shot dead in an Uttar Pradesh town, police said Saturday. "Babloo Dubeys bullet-ridden body was found today (Saturday) in the fields near Jahanganj town in Azamgarh district," police inspector O.P.

June 23rd, 2009 BHOPAL - Five employees of an Indore-based private firm, abducted by dacoits on Sunday, were freed after a gunbattle between police and the dacoits in Agra district of Uttar Pradesh, police said here Tuesday. Another kidnapped employee was found 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.

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 - 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 - 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.