Ten die in paper mill fire at Uttaranchal

Dehra dun, May 1 (UNI) Ten people were killed and eight others injured in a fire at a paper mill at Kashipur in Udhamsing Nagar today.

The explosion occurred at the Sriram Paper Mill in the evening when a boiler containing sodium chloride brust into flames, the SSP Udhamsingh Nagar Amit Kumar Sinha and Disaster Management Mitigation Centre sources said.

The SSP told UNI no workers were trapped in the inferno.

State Chief Minister Narayan Dutt Tiwari has ordered magestrial inquiry of the incident and issued instructions to provide the best medical facilities to the injured.

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