Many feared dead, 25 workers trapped as chimney collapses at Chhattisgarh plant

Two labourers were injured and many others are feared trapped after a chimney at a smelting plant collapsed in Chhattisgarh’s Mungeli district on Thursday, PTI reported, citing the police.

The incident took place in a plant located in the Saragaon area of the district.(PTI)

Mungeli Superintendent of Police Bhojram Patel said that the incident took place in a plant located in the Saragaon area of the district.

Patel said that as per preliminary information, the silo – an iron structure used to store bulk materials – crashed, trapping under it some workers present at the site.