At least six persons were killed when a truck loaded with explosives blew up at an open-cast coal mine in Birbhum's Khoirasole on Monday morning. A senior official of WBPDCL said the explosion occurred when the vehicle was transporting explosives for regular blasts used to excavate coal. Usually, gelatin sticks and detonators are used to carry out explosions in opencast coal mines. However, in this case, the coal mine is legal, and no illegal explosives should have been used to excavate coal. Birbhum police chief Raj Narayan Mukherjee declined to comment on how the explosion occurred in a PDCL open-cast coal mine.

Source: The Telegraph October 08, 2024 00:22 UTC