An FIR has been registered under sections 286, 287, 304, 308, 337 and 338 of the IPC at the Dhaulana police station. The FIR states that firecrackers were manufactured at the factory.
The fire tenders reached the location as soon as they received the information and started dousing the fire.
According to reports, the blast took place in the boiler of MM Food factory situated at Magadi Road in the capital city.
The district's chief administrator Mostain Billah said that death toll of Thursday's factory fire has risen to 51 on Friday afternoon.
The fire broke out at multi-storey building of Shezan Juice Factory of Hashem Foods Ltd in Bhulota Karnagop area in Narayanganj around 5 p.m. and 15 units of fire services are still struggling to contain it.
One person died after a major fire broke out at an ink manufacturing unit at Turbhe in Navi Mumbai on Sunday, an official said.
A fire broke out at a manufacturing factory of medical equipment in Sahibabad Industrial Area Site 4 in Ghaziabad. At least 14 people have been so far.
A major fire broke out in a biscuit manufacturing factory at Ambernath in Maharashtra's Thane district on Thursday morning.
The death toll in the February 12 blaze that broke out in a fireworks manufacturing factory in Tamil Nadu's Virudhunagar district has gone up to 25, the district collector said.
At least 28 fire tenders were rushed to the spot to douse the fire. According to the fire department, a charred body was also found in the factory.
A woman labourer was killed and two others were injured when a boiler of a factory exploded in neighbouring Shamli district, police said on Saturday.
Four people, including an employee of IMC Group and three labourers, were killed after the private company's storage tank containing 1,700 tonnes of methanol caught fire following an explosion at 1.30 pm on Monday.
The fire department said that the blaze broke out about 5:45 pm in an electric fan factory in Gazipur, near the Bangladeshi capital and that when it was finally put out 10 bodies were found in the charred ruins of the establishment, the Efe news reported.
Twenty two years later, on Sunday morning, December 8, 2019, another fire broke out in a factory in a crowded market in West Delhi's Rani Jhansi Road area killing 43 so far, making it Delhi's second worst fire incident since Uphaar tragedy.
Both the heads of the country took Twitter to send their messages and prayers for the recovery of those suffered injuries.
The Indian Embassy in Sudan reported about the Indians killed in the incident that happened on Tuesday, without mentioning the number of casualties.
A four-storeyed factory engulfed in flames in Delhi late on Sunday. At least 28 fire tenders are present at the spot to douse the flames, in which one fire personnel has been injured. There were no reports of any casualties in the fire incident.
Workers of the factory in the Panki industrial area of Kalyanpur were rescued during the firefighting operation. No casualties were reported.
The incident occurred around 11.30 am and the impact of the explosion was such that the entire roof of the fireworks factory was blown off.
Police said that, prima facie, the fire started due to an electrical short circuit around 6.30 am at the Raja Park factory in Sultanpuri, which made shoe and sandal uppers.
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