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Dombivili factory blast toll rises to 12

by IBNS 27 May 2016, 09:47 pm

Mumbai, May 28 (IBNS) The death toll in the boiler blast in a Dombivili chemical factory rose to 12 with the recovery of another body on Saturday, reports said.

National Disaster Response Force (NDRF) personnel, engaged in rescue operation, recovered six bodies on Thursdayand four on Friday. One person succumbed to his injuries in hospital.

The owner of the factory has been charged with culpable homicide not amounting to murder.

The exact cause of the blast is yet to be ascertained.