Police personnel stand guard outside the gutted pharmaceutical unit of Sigachi Industries, a day after an explosion in Sangareddy, in India's southern Telangana state on July 1, 2025. The death toll from a powerful explosion at an Indian chemical factory has risen to 45. - AFP
NEW DELHI: The death toll in a chemical factory blast in southern India rose to 45 on Tuesday (July 1) as more bodies were retrieved from the rubble.
The facility at Pashamylaram near Telangana state's capital Hyderabad belonged to Sigachi Industries Limited.
