8 injured in Telangana bulk drug manufacturing unit fire

Hyderabad: Eight workers were injured, one of them seriously, when a fire broke out in a bulk drug manufacturing unit in neighbouring Sangareddy district on Saturday, police said.

Six fire tenders put out the blaze, suspected to have been triggered by a chemical reaction, after nearly three-hour-long operation.

As most of the workers were on lunch break when the mishap occurred, the number of injured was less, police said.

Only 10 employees were working and eight of them sustained injuries as they ran out of the unit when the fire broke out, police said.

All the injured were rushed to a hospital where the condition of one was stated to be serious.

A chemical reaction was suspected to have resulted in the fire and the exact cause would be known after a thorough investigation, they said.

With agency inputs